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Dewdrop #102 07-Feb-26

Jakarta Struts Ajax example 2

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Saturday, February 7, 2026

The Oracle Story

                              No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house
                                                                                                                                                             Mathew 5:15

Oracle corporation, initially called Software Development Laboratories, was founded in 1977 by Larry Elison and Bob Miner, computer programmers at Ampex Corporation, an American electronics company along with Ed Oates, Elison's supervisor at Ampex. The idea for the relational database was inspired by a paper by Edgar F Codd that outlined a relational model. They had the vison of making this data management concept commercial as it arranged large amounts of data efficiently and also enabled quick retrieval. Thus the trio started developing the program based on Codds theory and in 1979 the company released Oracle, the earliest commercial relational database program using structured query language. 



Once he learned the skills and concepts for relational databases Larry Ellison began to pursue his dream to start a data management company now know as Oracle. In the early years it was in competition with IBM which was also in the race to develop a relational database at that time. The IBM database is IBM DB2. But of the two Oracle is more widely used and popular.

Its first customer was the US Air Force which used the program at its air force base.

Oracle has grown from its humble beginnings as one of a number of databases available in the 1970s to the overwhelming market leader today.

In 1978 the first Oracle software was born, written in assembly language running on PDP-11 under RSX-11 in 128K memory. The first Oracle version was never released and the implementation separated oracle code from user code. The name Oracle came from the code name of a CIA project that the three original founders Elison, Bob and Ed had worked on in Amex Corporation.



In the year 1979,they offered the first commercial SQL relational database management system. The second version of Oracle released ran on PDP-11 hardware and they named it as Oracle v2 to capture more customers and they starting promoting it on the VAX platform.
In 1984 the database software was ported to the PC platform with the MS-DOS version 4.1.4 running on 512K memory.
In 1985 it was released to operate in client-server mode.

Initial funding was through personal funding of its founders and Venture Capitalists and it went public in 1986 and was then financed through its IPO and since then it has not raised any additional funds through Venture Capitalist or private investors.

In 1987 UNIX-based Oracle applications were introduced and a year later Oracle v6 was released with hot backups, embedded PL/SQL procedural engine within the database and support for row-level locking. In 1988 Oracle induced PL/SQL. The growth in the company led to relocation of the world headquarters to Redwood Shores, California in 1989 and revenues reaching $584 million.

In 1989, Oracle moved its headquarters to Redwood City, California. 

In 1995, Oracle Systems Corporation changes its name to Oracle Corporation and it became the first large software company to report an internet strategy and offered the first 64-bit RDBMS.
In June 1998 Oracle v8 was released with internet technology, support for terabytes of data and SQL object technology. 

In 1998 they announced integrating a JVM with the oracle database and in September of that year Oracle 8i was release, with i standing for internet. 
In 1999 Oracle offered its first DBMS with XML support.

In 2010 Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems After the merger Oracle owned Sun's hardware product lines as well as Sun's software product lines including the JAVA programming language.
My tryst with JAVA

Oracle Corporation has now diversified into a range of services like Oracle cloud services, Oracle middleware, Oracle Beehive, Financial services, hardware systems etc.
Middleware includes weblogic server which is a J2EE server and Oracle fusion middleware.
Oracle applications include ERP, CRM and Human Capital Management HCM.
Cloud services include SaaS Software as a service, PaaS Platform as a Service, IaaS  Infracture as a Service and DaaS Database as a Service.

More on the history and the growth of the relational database can be found in the articles below

Key Events and Milestones 

Thought for the day
Courage to continue matters more than success or failure.
--Winston Churchill
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Friday, February 6, 2026

Dewdrops Feb 2026


Dewdrop #101 28-Feb-26

Jakarta Struts : Using AJAX - The source code

God's Word for the day
Inappropriate speech
A slip on the pavement is better than a slip of the tongue;
  the downfall of the wicked will occur just as speedily
A coarse person is like an inappropriate story
  continually on the lips of the ignorant
A proverb from a fool's lips will be rejected
  for he does not tell it at the proper time.
Sirach 20:18-20

Gospel teachings of Jesus
Many crowds followed Jesus, and he cured all of them,
  And he ordered them not to make him known
This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isiah:
  "Here is my servant, whom I have chosen,
      My beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased.
  I will put my spirit upon him, 
      And he will proclaim justice to the gentiles
  He will not wrangle or cry aloud,
      Nor will anyone hear his voice on the streets.
  He will not break a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick
      until he brings justice to victory.
  And in His name the Gentiles will hope"
Mathew 12:15-21
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Oracle News Feb 2026

Oracle Newsletter 13-Feb-26

ReGrow Israel Harvests Insights from Oracle Data Intelligence for Agriculture to Support Agricultural Recovery and Future Resilience






Oracle Newsletter 06-Feb-26

AI Data Centers Need Skilled People: Oracle Academy Helps Build AI Careers


God's Word for the day
Paradoxes
The fool says "I have no friends 
  and I get no thanks for my good deeds.
Those who eat my bread are evil tongued."
  How many will ridicule him and how often! 
Sirach 20:16-17

Gospel teachings of Jesus
"Suppose one of you has only one sheep
  and it falls into a pit on the sabbath;
Will you not lay hold of it and lift it out?
  "How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep!
So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath"
  Then he said to the man "Stretch out your hand"
He stretched it out and it was restored, as sound as the other.
Mathew 12:11-13
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Monday, February 2, 2026

Oracle News Mar 2026







God's Word for the day

Proverbial Sayings
Favours and gifts blind the eyes of the wise;
  Like a muzzle on the mouth they stop reproofs.
Hidden wisdom and unseen treasue, of what value is either?
  Better are those who hide their folly than those who hide their wisdom.
Sirach 20:29-31

Gospel teachings of Jesus The sign of Jonah
Then some of the scribes and pharisees said to Him,
  "Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you."
But he answered them "An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign,
  but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster,
  so for three days and three nights the Son of man will be in the heart of the Earth.
The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it,
  because they repented at the procamation of Jonah, 
And see something greater than Jonah is here.
  The queen of the South will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it,
Because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and see, 
  something greater than Solomon is here!
Mathew 12:38-43
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Saturday, January 31, 2026

Dewdrops Jan 2026

Dewdrop #99 31-Jan-26

Using AJAX in JSP

God's Word for the day

Lying
A lie is an ugly blot on a person
  it is continually on the lips of the ignorant
A thief is preferable to a habitual liar
  but the lot of both is ruin
A liar's way leads to disgrace
  and his shame is ever with him
Sirach 20:24-26

Gospel teachings of Jesus

A tree and its fruit 
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good;
  or make the tree bad and its fruit bad
For the tree is known by its fruit
Mathew 12:33
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Friday, January 30, 2026

Oracle News Jan 2026




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