Maybe 13h (holistic for Oracle marketing and horror for the film). From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rajendra.pande@xxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 1:40 PM To: MATT.ADAMS@xxxxxx; Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Oracle 13 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 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l