Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in redwood city, california, u.s. The company specializ es in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products. It is the second-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft.
Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in redwood city, california, u.s. The company specializ es in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products. It is the second-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft.
Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in redwood city, california, u.s. The company specializ es in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products. It is the second-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft.
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headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States. The company specializ es in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products particularly its own brands of database management systems. Oracle is the second-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft.[3] The company also builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tie r software, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, customer relationship m anagement (CRM) software and supply chain management (SCM) software. Larry Ellison, a co-founder of Oracle, has served as Oracle's CEO throughout its history. He also served as the Chairman of the Board until his replacement by J effrey O. Henley in 2004. On August 22, 2008, the Associated Press ranked Elliso n as the top-paid chief executive in the world.[4][5] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Overall timeline 1.2 Technology timeline 1.3 Manageability claim 2 Products and services 2.1 Software 2.1.1 Databases 2.1.2 Middleware 2.1.3 Applications 2.1.4 Enterprise management 2.1.5 Development software 2.1.6 Operating systems 2.2 Hardware 2.3 Services 3 Marketing 3.1 Sales practices 3.2 Competition 3.2.1 Oracle and SAP 3.3 Slogans 3.4 Media 4 Controversies 4.1 Trashgate 4.2 "Can't break it, can't break in" 4.3 Relationship with John Ashcroft 4.4 Expeditionary Combat Support System 4.5 Cover Oregon Healthcare Exchange 5 Events 5.1 Acquisition of Sun Microsystems 5.2 Justice Department lawsuit 5.3 Acquisition of Phase Forward 5.4 Lawsuit against Google 5.5 Discontinuation of OpenSolaris 5.6 Discontinuation of OpenSSO 5.7 Mark Hurd replaces Phillips as President 5.8 OpenOffice.org issue 5.9 HP & Oracle lawsuit 5.10 Foreign corrupt practices 5.11 Oracle banned from bidding for US General Services Administration business 6 People 7 Offices 8 Sponsorships 9 See also 10 References 11 External links History[edit] This section is in a list format that may be better presented using prose. You c an help by converting this section to prose, if appropriate. Editing help is ava ilable. (May 2014) Ellison took inspiration[6] from the 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on rela tional database management systems (RDBMS) named "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks."[7] He heard about the IBM System R database from an article in the IBM Research Jou rnal provided by Ed Oates (a future co-founder of Oracle). System R also derived from Codd's theories, and Ellison wanted to make Oracle's product compatible wi th System R, but IBM stopped this by keeping the error codes for their DBMS secr et. Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates un der the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1979 SDL changed its na me to Relational Software, Inc. (RSI).[8] In 1982, RSI renamed itself Oracle Sys tems Corporation [9] to align itself more closely with its flagship product Orac le Database. At this stage Bob Miner served as the company's senior programmer. In 1995, Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corporation.[10] The company is officially named Oracle, but sometimes referred to as Oracle Corp oration, which is in fact the name of the holding company.[11] Part of Oracle Corporation's early success arose from using the C programming la nguage to implement its products. This eased porting to different operating syst ems (most of which support C). Overall timeline[edit] This section is in a list format that may be better presented using prose. You c an help by converting this section to prose, if appropriate. Editing help is ava ilable. (May 2014) Oracle Linux - A free Linux distribution supported by Oracle since 2006. 1970s June 16, 1977: Software Development Laboratories (SDL) is incorporated in Santa Clara, California[1] by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. 1978: Oracle Version 1, written in assembly language, runs on PDP-11 under RSX-1 1, in 128K of memory. Implementation separates Oracle code from user code. Oracl e V1 is never officially released.[12] The name Oracle comes from the code name of a CIA project which the founders had all worked on while at the Ampex Corpora tion. June 1979: SDL is renamed to Relational Software Inc. (RSI)[8] and relocated to Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California. Oracle 2, the first version of the Oracl e database software, as purchased by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, runs on PD P-11 hardware. The company decides to name the first version of its flagship pro duct "version 2" rather than "version 1" because it believes customers might hes itate to buy the initial release of its product.[citation needed] October 1979: RSI actively promotes Oracle on the VAX platform (the software run s on the VAX in PDP-11 emulator mode). 1980s 1981: Umang Gupta joins RSI, where he writes the first business plan for the com pany and serves as Vice President and General Manager. February 1981: RSI begins developing tools for the Oracle Database, including th e Interactive Application Facility (IAF), a predecessor to Oracle*Forms. 1982: RSI renames itself Oracle Systems Corporation in order to align itself mor e closely with its primary product. March 1983: Oracle Database is rewritten in C for portability and Oracle version 3 is released. April 1984: Oracle receives additional funding from Sequoia Capital. October 1984: Oracle version 4 is released, introducing read consistency. November 1984: Oracle database software is ported to the PC platform. The MS-DOS version (4.1.4) of Oracle runs in only 512K of memory. (Oracle for MSDOS versio n 5, released in 1986, runs in Protected Mode on 286 machines using a technique invented by Mike Roberts, among the first products to do so.) April 1985: Oracle version 5 is released one of the first RDBMSs to operate in c lient-server mode. 1986: Oracle version 5.1 is released with support for distributed queries. Inves tigations into clustering begin. March 12, 1986: Oracle goes public with a revenue of $55 million. August 1987: Oracle founds its Applications division, building business-manageme nt software closely integrated with its database software. Oracle acquires TCI f or its project management software. 1988: Oracle version 6 is released with support for row-level locking and hot ba ckups. The