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Oracle’s Enterprise Database Expansion: Funding Sales, Platforms, and the Relational Standard

Oracle's 1980s expansion financed portability, aggressive sales, and enterprise support, turning relational database theory into a global software standard.

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Relational Software Inc.: Betting on Commercial SQL Before IBM Fully Commercialized It

The company that became Oracle bet that IBM's relational research could become a commercial SQL product, turning published ideas into a high-value enterprise software platform.

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SAP: Five Engineers Bet on Real-Time Enterprise Software

Five former IBM engineers founded SAP around a contrarian idea: standardized enterprise software could process business data in real time and be reused across many customers.

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