080. What
event in U.S. history gave rise to DBMS and why?
At the beginning of John F. Kennedy's
Presidency, he promised the American People that the United
States would put a man on the moon by the end
of the decade. The problem was that this required cooperation between a vast number of government contractors. In the early 1960's one of
them, North American Rockwell, looked at the data they needed to maintain. They
found that over
60% of all the data they maintained (and as you might imagine, there was an
enormous amount of data necessary) was duplicated elsewhere, in most cases in
many, many different locations.