> Codd got called out for his conflict of interest and was forced to retract his paper … but without much fallout, it seems: today, Codd is still regarded as ‘

> Codd got called out for his conflict of interest and was forced to retract his paper … but without much fallout, it seems: today, Codd is still regarded as ‘the father of the relational database’ I found this passage confusing. He is regarded as such because of his work on the relational algebra, and the shady OLAP backstory is unrelated to that.