You must have always wondered why there is a uname / pwd in Oracle called, Scott/Tiger....
Who is this scott ? Here is the answer to ur query....
So, who is Scott?
Bruce Scott was one of the first employees at Oracle (then Software Development Laboratories). He co-founded Gupta Technology (now known as Centura Software) in 1984 with Umang Gupta, and later became CEO and founder of PointBase, Inc. Bruce was co-author and co-architect of Oracle V1, V2 and V3.
The SCOTT schema (EMP and DEPT tables), with password TIGER, was created by him. Tiger was the name of his cat.