Talk:Edgar F. Codd
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Databases. |
| Start | rated as Start-Class on the assessment scale |
| High | rated as high-importance on the assessment scale |
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page. | ||
| Start | This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ] | ||
 |
This article is supported by the Science and academia work group. | ||
IBM did NOT ignore Codd's work until the "successes" of Larry Ellison. IBM was deeply involved in relational database research and the development of SQL in the early 1970s, before Ellison even got started. Even the unskeptical do not contend that Oracle delivered commercial product prior to late 1979, and other commercial relational products were well on the way in that time frame. Oracle's early product saw little success until the mid 1980s with products like Ingres having the early lion's share of the market. If anything, it was Ellison who ignored Codd's work -- the early Oracle product was far from meeting the principles of the relational model. Oracle did not achieve market dominance until much later and by that time IBM had established two relational products SQL/DS and DB2 in the market.
David McGoveran
Contents |
[edit] F
What does the "F" stand for in Edward F. Codd? - 203.134.166.99 07:42, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
Frank
Don't know. But his name wasn't Edward ;-) Mhkay 13:26, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Future System and System R
The statement "Then IBM included in its Future System project a System R subproject" is not correct or at least misleading". System R was a Research project and preceded Future System. Future System was a later Development project. I know. I was part of System R. See "A History and Evaluation of System R" at www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/SystemR.pdf or the System R website at www.mcjones.org/System_R . James W. (Jim) Mehl
[edit] British?
Codd was British and he was a computer scientist, but can he really be described as a "British Computer Scientist" when all his professional career as a computer scientist was spent in the United States? Mhkay 13:25, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Codd was very proud of being British. When I had lunch with him in the early 80s he described flying Spitfires for the RAF. He was small of stature but had a warm personality and a generous spirit. Above all he was a mathematician. He was very focused on the mathematical rigor of relational theory. Date was a bit more practically oriented. Saltysailor (talk) 14:10, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:58, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Turing Award 13 years ahead of ACM fellow recognition?
Can someone shed some light on why Codd wasn't an ACM fellow a dozen years after he got his Turing Award. Both recognition are from the same organization, and the former is supposed to be many times more selective than the latter, no? Jim —Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.87.1.170 (talk) 17:58, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] IBM Fellow
Codd was an IBM Fellow according to this: http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20030423_edgarpassaway.shtml However, he is listed in the Wikipedia "IBM employee" category. Contrast with Benoit Mandelbrot, who is not listed in the employee category, but rather the fellow category. I assume this is an oversight, but perhaps there is some rationale? Dolphin Cheese (talk) 21:10, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
