History of Oracle technology introductions
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Year
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Feature
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1979
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Oracle Release 2: the first commercially available relational
database to use SQL.
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1983
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Single code base for Oracle across multiple platforms.
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1984
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Portable toolset.
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1986
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Client/server and distributed Oracle relational database.
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1987
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CASE and 4GL toolset.
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1993
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Oracle7 with cost-based optimizer.
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1997
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Oracle8 generally available; Oracle previews Oracle Application
Server 4.0.
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1998
|
Oracle Application Server 4.0 generally available; Java-based middle
tier.
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1999
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Oracle8i generally available; Java
Virtual Machine in the database.
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2001
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Oracle9i Application Server generally
available; Oracle integration in middle tier includes Portal technology;
OracleAS Web Cache in Oracle9iAS announced.
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2001
|
Oracle9i generally available.
|
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2003
|
Oracle Database10g enables grid computing
and simplifies and automates key management tasks; Oracle Application
Server 10g generally available.
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Source: Oracle Application Server 10g Essentials,
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