[PEN-L:11353] Re: Oracle and the CIA

[Anders Schneiderman <aschneid@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:18 AM 7/20/97 -0700, you wrote:

>Can you send me the reference on this.  Is this the current issue?

Oops!  I firgit; it's not the latest issue.  I think I xeroxed it, w/ full
citation.  I'll look around for it + let you know.  But it definitely
wasn't more than a few months old.

Anders

>> Dear Pen-lrs,
>>
>> Whenever I give talks about the computer industry, I point out that
>> virtually all of the major companies got massive help, directly or
>> indirectly, from Uncle Sam.  One of the few exceptions was Oracle--or so I
>> thought.  I just read a profile of Ellison in Vanity Fair, and it turns out
>> that the first major database that he sold was for the CIA!  In fact, he
>> named his company "Oracle" because that was the code name for his previous
>> project for the CIA when he was working at Amex (sp?).   His next customer
>> after the CIA?  The Air Force, of course.  Oh, the joys of unfettered free
>> enterprise....
>>
>> Anders Schneiderman
>> Progressive Communications
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