> Early on could people see the future and know what Ms dos, Oracle, or google would become? No...
In the case of Oracle, yes, because Oracle was created directly to compete with DB2 (which was already a success) but as a product that could run on all the popular platforms of the day. So success of their early RDBMS-based-business was predictable, assuming they could execute.
In the case of Oracle, yes, because Oracle was created directly to compete with DB2 (which was already a success) but as a product that could run on all the popular platforms of the day. So success of their early RDBMS-based-business was predictable, assuming they could execute.