The US military spends a lot of its treasure managing data, so it's not surprising that they would fund database companies to do it better. I got my start in da

The US military spends a lot of its treasure managing data, so it's not surprising that they would fund database companies to do it better. I got my start in databases while serving in the US Air Force in the early 1980s. Oracle would have been quite interesting for us, had we known about it. It's not much different from how military funding drove advancement of aircraft or integrated circuits.