RE: Oracle 13

  • From: <rajendra.pande@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <MATT.ADAMS@xxxxxx>, <Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 13:40:08 -0500

Taking about sinister it would be funny to see someone coming up with some 
clever "Friday the 13th spoof" on oracle 13 J

 

I guess something like 13c is not the same as 13. But still all things 
considered I can imagine ORACLE coming up with some clever excuse to skip 13.

 

From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Adams, Matthew (GE, Appl & Light)
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 1:33 PM
To: Oracle-L (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Oracle 13

 

No,  roman numerals are definitely the way they should go here.  

 

I want to see Oracle XIII...seems more sinister somehow,  which makes that much 
more appropriate

 

From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of David Fitzjarrell
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 1:02 PM
To: sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Oracle 13

 

They could use hex:

 

Oracle D

 

or octal which puts us back to:

 

Oracle 15

 

Or maybe binary:

 

Oracle 1101

 

Maybe use base 9:

 

Oracle 14

 

Base 11 wouldn't work, though:

 

Oracle 12

 

How about base 7:

 

Oracle 16

 

The possibilities could be endless.

 

David Fitzjarrell

Principal author, "Oracle Exadata Survival Guide"

 

On Thursday, November 6, 2014 8:17 AM, Stéphane Faroult <sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

 

I agree with Tim that it's about marketing and not arithmetic. The 
trouble is that nobody can ignore the Chinese market these days, and 
Oracle 14 will definitely not do in China (no 14th floor in Hong Kong), 
and the Chinese attach even more importance to numbers than westerners. 
Will we skip for Oracle 12Rn to Oracle 15? Talk of a "mature" product ...

Stéphane Faroult
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