The claim is made that: "Oracle is the world's first RDBMS." Surely, this is not the case. I am unsure which is the first but, amongst others, IBM System R and Logica Rapport were around before Oracle, I believe. Can someone clarify please? Geoff97 18:09, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Multics too claims to be the first RDBMS. We need a consensus.
- "...(RSI) was founded in 1979 and released Oracle V.2 as the world's first relational database.". [1]
- "Multics Relational Data Store (MRDS)... is believed to be the first relational database management system ...". [2]
- Jay 07:29, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)
RSI was started in 1979. There are references to other RDBMSs before that date, which seems to eliminate Oracle as the first. The question is which was the first? See #10 here for a reference to RAPPORT-3 from Logica: [3] Geoff97 10:33, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)