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Oracle vs Ibm - What's the difference?

oracle | ibm |

As proper nouns the difference between oracle and ibm

is that oracle is (computing) a database management system (and its associated software) developed by the while ibm is .

As a noun ibm is

intercontinental ballistic missile.

oracle

English

(wikipedia oracle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity.
  • * Milton:
    • The oracles are dumb; / No voice or hideous hum / Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
  • A person such as a priest through whom the deity is supposed to respond with prophecy or advice.
  • A prophetic response, often enigmatic or allegorical, so given.
  • * Drayton:
    • Whatso'er she saith, for oracles must stand.
  • A person considered to be a source of wisdom.
    • a literary oracle
  • * Macaulay:
    • The country rectors thought him an oracle on points of learning.
  • * Tennyson:
    • oracles of mode
  • A wise sentence or decision of great authority.
  • One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.
  • * Milton:
    • God hath now sent his living oracle / Into the world to teach his final will.
  • (computing theory) A theoretical entity capable of answering some collection of questions.
  • (Jewish antiquity) The sanctuary, or most holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.
  • * Milton:
    • Siloa's brook, that flow'd / Fast by the oracle of God.
  • * Bible , 1 Kings 6:19, King James Version:
    • And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

    Derived terms

    * oracle machine

    Synonyms

    * (priest acting as conduit of prophecy) prophet * (person who is a source of wisdom) expert

    Verb

    (oracl)
  • (obsolete) To utter oracles or prophecies.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    ibm

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Intercontinental ballistic missile.
  • * 1956 , Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (volume 12, number 6, June 1956, page 186)
    • They see this last possibility in an international agreement to stop further atomic and thermonuclear bomb tests and halt the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles (IBMs ).
  • * 1987 , Kenneth David Nichols, The Road to Trinity (page 294)
    • Today we need a defense against IBM attack. When as chief of R&D I urged Army Ordnance to develop an antimissile missile, I heard repeatedly that you can't hit a bullet with a bullet, so it is impossible to develop such a missile.
  • * 1990 , William Elliott Butler, Perestroika and International Law (page 155)
    • Thus, they limit to a strictly defined number the quantity of armed IBMs in the USSR and the United States, as well as ballistic missiles of submarines.
  • (figuratively) A company that dominates its field.
  • * 1968 , George Washington University, Computers-in-Law Institute, National Law Center, The Law of Software: 1968 Proceedings :
    • Univac was the IBM of the computer industry's incipiency; in 1952 Univac had virtually 100% of the market.
  • * 1982 , Tracy Kidder, The Soul Of A New Machine (ISBN 0380599317), page 238:
    • First, to Sperry Univac, the descendent of the first real computer company, which might have become the IBM of the industry had it not blown its early lead;
  • * 1990 , Alfred Balk, The Myth of American Eclipse: The New Global Age (ISBN 0887383696), page 81:
    • The US lead was mainly due to one firm, the IBM of its small, specialized field: Cray Research Inc.

    Derived terms

    * IBMer

    Anagrams

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