Why is Oracle Bone Inscriptions called Oracle Bone Inscriptions?

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is not only a Chinese translator in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but also can express the business characteristics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions: "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" literally means a record of data and information. This meaning can be traced back to the distant Shang Dynasty (about16th century BC to 1 1 century BC). Tortoise shell and bovine bones (usually shoulder blades) are used to predict good or bad luck and record "Oracle". It is considered as the earliest written language in China.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company, founded in 1977, reinterpreted the ancient concept of "Oracle Bone Inscriptions". The information storage, recording and access solutions created by Oracle are widely used by global enterprises, including China enterprises. ?

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The origin of the name:

In 1970s, a software company named Ampex designed a database named Oracle for the CIA. Ellison is one of programmers.

From 65438 to 0977, Ellison and his colleague Robert Miner established a software development laboratory. At that time, IBM published a paper on "relational database", and Ellison created a new database named Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

1978, the company moved to Silicon Valley and changed its name to "Relational Software Company" (RSI). 1In the summer of 979, RSI released a commercial ORACLE product, which can be used on DEC's PDP-1/computer. This database product integrates a relatively complete SQL implementation, including sub-query, connection and other functions.

The CIA wanted to buy a set of such software to meet their needs, but after consulting IBM, they found that IBM had no available commercial products, so they contacted RSI. So RSI has its first customer.

IBM, which first proposed "relational database", adopted RSI database. It was renamed Oracle Bone Inscriptions on 1982.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company