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Oracle Corporation
Type Public (NASDAQ: ORCL)
Founded California, USA (1977)[1]
Headquarters Redwood City, CA
Key people Lawrence (Larry) J. Ellison, Co-founder and CEO
Jeffrey O. Henley, Chairman
Safra A. Catz, President/CFO
Charles Phillips, President
Industry Software & Programming
Products Oracle Communications
Oracle Database
Oracle Rdb
Oracle eBusiness Suite
Oracle Application Server
Oracle JDeveloper
Oracle Application Framework
Oracle ADF
Oracle Collaboration Suite
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Oracle Application Express
Oracle Designer
Oracle Developer Suite
Revenue ▲$17. The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation Jeffrey O Henley (Jeff Henley is the Chairman of Oracle Corporation. Safra A Catz (born 1961 in Holon, Israel) is an Israeli - American Manager, has been the Chief Financial Officer of Charles E Phillips ( born 1960 Little Rock Arkansas) is the President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the company's Board of Directors For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply Oracle) is a Relational database management system (RDBMS produced and marketed by Rdb/VMS is a Relational database management system (RDBMS for the Hewlett-Packard OpenVMS Operating system. Within the overall rubric of Oracle Applications, Oracle Corporation 's E-Business Suite ("EB-Suite" or "EBS" consists of a collection of Enterprise In Computing, the Oracle Application Server 10g (the "g" stands for Grid) consists of an integrated standards-based software platform. JDeveloper is a free IDE from Oracle. It offers features for development in Java, XML, SQL and PL/SQL, HTML, Oracle Application Framework (OA Framework is a proprietary framework developed by Oracle Corporation for application development within the Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle Application Development Framework, usually called Oracle ADF, is a commercial Java framework for creating enterprise applications Launched in 2000, the Oracle Collaboration Suite represented the first attempt by Oracle Corporation to enter the Enterprise messaging system market The Computer application Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM or EM aims to manage Software produced by Oracle Corporation as well as by some non-Oracle Oracle Application Express (Oracle Apex previously named Oracle HTML-DB is a free Software Development environment based on the Oracle database. Oracle Designer is Oracle 's CASE tool for designing an Information system and generating it Oracle Developer Suite is a suite of development tools released by the Oracle Corporation. In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services 996 billion USD (2007)
Operating income ▲ $5. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been In financial and business Accounting, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT is a measure of a firm's profitability that excludes interest and income tax expenses 974 billion USD (2007)
Net income ▲ $4. Net income is equal to the Income that a firm has after subtracting costs and Expenses from the total Revenue. 274 billion USD (2007)
Employees 70,145 (as of May 15 2008)
Website http://www.oracle.com

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), an American multinational corporation, specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products, particularly database management systems. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Multinational corporation ( MNC) or transnational corporation ( TNC) is a Corporation or enterprise that manages Production or delivers Enterprise software is Software intended to solve an enterprise problem (rather than a departmental problem and often written using an Enterprise Software Architecture A database management system ( DBMS) is Computer software designed for the purpose of managing Databases DBMSes may use any of a variety of Data models the corporation has arguably become best-known due to association with its flagship Oracle database. flagship is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels a designation given on account of being either the largest fastest newest most heavily armed or for publicity purposes the most well Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply Oracle) is a Relational database management system (RDBMS produced and marketed by The company also builds tools for database development, middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software. A Computer Database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system Enterprise resource planning ( ERP) is the planning of how business resources (materials employees customers etc Customer relationship management ( CRM) is a term applied to processes implemented by a company to handle its contact with its customers Supply chain management (SCM is the process of Planning, implementing and Controlling the operations of the Supply chain as efficiently as possible

Founded in 1977, Oracle has offices in at least 145 countries around the world. As of 2008 it employed more than 70,000 people worldwide. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common As of 2005 it ranked as the world's second- largest software company by revenue.

The founder and CEO, Larry Ellison, has served as Oracle's CEO throughout the company's history. A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation Ellison also served as the Chairman of the Board until his replacement by Jeffrey O. Henley in 2004. Jeffrey O Henley (Jeff Henley is the Chairman of Oracle Corporation. Ellison retains his role as CEO.

Ellison took inspiration from the 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database systems named "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks". Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd ( August 23, 1923 – April 18, 2003) was a British computer scientist who while working A database management system ( DBMS) is Computer software designed for the purpose of managing Databases DBMSes may use any of a variety of Data models [2] He had heard about the IBM System R database from an article in the IBM Research Journal provided by Ed Oates (a future co-founder of Oracle Corporation). International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology IBM System R is a Database system built as a research project at IBM San Jose Research (now IBM Almaden Research Center) in the 1970s Ed Oates (1946- co-founded Software Development Labs in August 1977 with Larry Ellison, and Bob Miner. System R also derived from Codd's theories, and Ellison wanted to make his Oracle product compatible with System R, but IBM stopped this by keeping the error codes for their DBMS secret. Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1979 SDL changed its name to Relational Software, Inc. (RSI). In 1982, RSI renamed itself as Oracle Systems[3] to more closely align itself with its flagship product Oracle Database. Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply Oracle) is a Relational database management system (RDBMS produced and marketed by At this stage Robert Miner served as the company's senior programmer. Bob Miner (1942-1994 co-founded Software Development Labs in August 1977 with Larry Ellison, and Ed Oates.

Contents

Overall timeline

Technology timeline

RDBMS release timeline

Oracle acquisitions

As became apparent with Peoplesoft in January 2005, Oracle has made acquisitions an important component of its growth strategy.


Company Date Industry Valuation
millions USD
Thinking Machines Corporation 01999-06 June 1999 Darwin, Datamining technology N/A sm=n
Toplink 02002-01 January 2002 Object relation mapping technology N/A sm=n
NetForce 02002-01 January 2002 Adverse Event Reporting System N/A sm=n
Steltor 02002-06 June 2002 Enterprise calendaring system N/A sm=n
Phaos 02004-05 May 2004 Identity Management N/A sm=n
Collaxa 02004-06 June 2004 Business Process Management N/A sm=n
PeopleSoft 02005-01 January 2005 Enterprise Software $10,300
Oblix 02005-03 March 2005 Identity Management N/A sm=n
Retek 02005-04 April 2005 Retail Industry Solutions $630
TripleHop 02005-06 June 2005 Context-sensitive Enterprise Search N/A sm=n
TimesTen 02005-06 June 2005 Real-time Enterprise Solutions N/A sm=n
ProfitLogic 02005-07 July 2005 Retail Industry Solutions N/A sm=n
Context Media 02005-07 July 2005 Enterprise Content Integration N/A sm=n
i-flex (Oracle Financial Services) 02005-08 August 2005 Banking Industry Solutions $900
G-Log 02005-09 September 2005 Transportation Management Solutions N/A sm=n
Innobase 02005-10 October 2005 Discrete Transactional Open Source Database Technology N/A sm=n
Thor Technologies 02005-11 November 2005 Enterprise-wide User Provisioning Solutions. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been Thinking Machines Corporation was a Supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham Massachusetts in 1982 by W Events in June Madaraka Day June 1 to commemorate when Kenya gained internal self-rule Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) TopLink is an Object-relational mapping (ORM package for Java developers Events in January Holidays New Year's Day - January 1 Coptic Christmas - January 7 See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Tom Clancy's Net Force is a novel series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik and written by Steve Perry Events in January Holidays New Year's Day - January 1 Coptic Christmas - January 7 See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Steltor was a Montreal (Canada based Collaborative software ( Calendar) company Events in June Madaraka Day June 1 to commemorate when Kenya gained internal self-rule See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. MAY ( also known as: Mei メイ 메이 is a Korean singer well known in South Korea for singing the song "Miracle" "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events in June Madaraka Day June 1 to commemorate when Kenya gained internal self-rule "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " PeopleSoft Inc was a company that provided Human resource management systems (HRMS Customer relationship management, Manufacturing Financials Enterprise Events in January Holidays New Year's Day - January 1 Coptic Christmas - January 7 Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The commercial name Oblix may refer either to a suite of Software designed to manage Authentication identity (especially in a Web service environment or Events in March American Red Cross Month Fire Prevention month ( The Philippines) Women's History Month ( United Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. April holidays and events National Poetry Month - in United States National Sexual Assault Awareness Month - in United Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events in June Madaraka Day June 1 to commemorate when Kenya gained internal self-rule Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. TimesTen is a Database product from Oracle Corporation. It provides a family of real-time infrastructure Software products designed for Events in June Madaraka Day June 1 to commemorate when Kenya gained internal self-rule Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events in July The traditional period known as "fence month" (the closed season for deer in England ended July 9 (date varied Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events in July The traditional period known as "fence month" (the closed season for deer in England ended July 9 (date varied Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Other names In Arabic, the month is called أغسطسص ʾUġusṭuṣ or آب ʾĀb; usage varies from place to place and Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Global Logistics Technologies Inc more commonly known as G-Log, was a privately held Startup company based in King of Prussia Pennsylvania and Stamford Events in September It is the start of the academic year in many countries in the Northern Hemisphere. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. InnoDB is a storage engine for MySQL, included as standard in all current Binaries distributed by MySQL AB. October events and holidays Children's Book Week ( England) - First Week of October National Day ( China People's Republic Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events in November All Saints' Day (formerly All Hallows Day a Christian holy day is celebrated on November 1, the day after Halloween Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. N/A sm=n
OctetString 02005-11 November 2005 Virtual Directory Solutions N/A sm=n
Temposoft 02005-12 December 2005 Workforce Management Applications N/A sm=n
360Commerce 02006-01 January 2006 Retail Industry Solutions N/A sm=n
Siebel Systems 02006-01 January 2006 Customer Relationship Management Solutions $5,850
Sleepycat 02006-02 February 2006 Open Source Database Software for Embedded Applications N/A sm=n
HotSip 02006-02 February 2006 Communications Infrastructure Solutions N/A sm=n
Portal Software 02006-04 April 2006 Communications Industry Software Suite $220
Net4Call 02006-04 April 2006 Communications Industry Service Delivery Platform N/A sm=n
Demantra 02006-06 June 2006 Demand-driven Planning Solutions N/A sm=n
Telephony@Work 02006-06 June 2006 IP-based Contact Center Technology N/A sm=n
Sigma Dynamics 02006-08 August 2006 Real-time Predictive Analytics Software N/A sm=n
Sunopsis 02006-10 October 2006 Enterprise Integration Software N/A sm=n
MetaSolv Software 02006-10 October 2006 Communications Service Providers Solutions $219
Stellent 02006-11 November 2006 Content Management Solutions $440
SPL WorldGroup 02006-11-03 3 November 2006 Revenue and Operations Management Software N/A sm=n
Hyperion Solutions 02007-03-01 1 March 2007 Enterprise Performance Management $3,300
AppForge
(intellectual assets only)		 02007-04 April 2007 Cross-platform handheld development N/A sm=n
Agile Software Corporation 02007-05-15 15 May 2007 Product Life Cycle Management Software $495
Bharosa 02007-07-18 18 July 2007 Identify Theft $495
NetSure Telecom Ltd. The commercial name OctetString refers to the former software firm based in Schaumburg Illinois, that published OctetString Virtual Directory (VDE a LDAP based Events in November All Saints' Day (formerly All Hallows Day a Christian holy day is celebrated on November 1, the day after Halloween Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events in December Union Day of Romania (1 December World AIDS Day ( December 1) National Day of Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events in January Holidays New Year's Day - January 1 Coptic Christmas - January 7 Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Siebel Systems Inc was a software company principally engaged in the design development marketing and support of CRM applications Events in January Holidays New Year's Day - January 1 Coptic Christmas - January 7 Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Sleepycat Software Inc was the commercial entity behind the Berkeley DB, a widely used Free software developer database with over 200 million deployments worldwide Overview February was named after the Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual Februa held on February 15 in the Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Overview February was named after the Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual Februa held on February 15 in the Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area April holidays and events National Poetry Month - in United States National Sexual Assault Awareness Month - in United Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. April holidays and events National Poetry Month - in United States National Sexual Assault Awareness Month - in United Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events in June Madaraka Day June 1 to commemorate when Kenya gained internal self-rule Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events in June Madaraka Day June 1 to commemorate when Kenya gained internal self-rule Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Other names In Arabic, the month is called أغسطسص ʾUġusṭuṣ or آب ʾĀb; usage varies from place to place and Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Sunopsis is software company based near Lyon, France. It also has a United States headquarters are in Burlington Massachusetts October events and holidays Children's Book Week ( England) - First Week of October National Day ( China People's Republic Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. October events and holidays Children's Book Week ( England) - First Week of October National Day ( China People's Republic Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Stellent, based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, was a software development company which provided Content management systems Stellent's main content management Events in November All Saints' Day (formerly All Hallows Day a Christian holy day is celebrated on November 1, the day after Halloween Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim Caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Hyperion Solutions Corporation was a business performance management software company located in Santa Clara California, USA which was acquired by Oracle Corporation Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. AppForge Inc was a software company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, providing mobile application development services as well as CrossFire a software tool simplifying April holidays and events National Poetry Month - in United States National Sexual Assault Awareness Month - in United Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Agile Software Corporation is a San Jose based Product Lifecycle Management software manufacturer Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 390 BC - Roman - Gaulish Wars Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. 02007-09-02 2 September 2007 Network intelligence and optimization software Undisclosed sm=n
Bridgestream 02007-09-05 5 September 2007 Enterprise Role Management N/A sm=n
LogicalApps 02007-10-09 9 October 2007 Compliance software N/A sm=n
Moniforce 02007-12-06 6 December 2007 End-user experience management software N/A sm=n
BEA Systems 02008-01-16 16 January 2008 Middleware software Company $8,500
Captovation 02008-01-16 16 January 2008 Document capture software N/A sm=n
Empirix (Web) 02008-03-27 27 March 2008 Web application testing software N/A sm=n
AdminServer 02008-05-13 13 May 2008 Insurance policy administration software N/A sm=n

Products and services

Technology products

Oracle databases

Main article: Oracle Database

In 2004 Oracle Corporation shipped release 10g ("g" standing for "grid") as the then latest version of Oracle Database. Events 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. 1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply Oracle) is a Relational database management system (RDBMS produced and marketed by Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply Oracle) is a Relational database management system (RDBMS produced and marketed by (Oracle Application Server 10g using Java EE integrates with the server part of that version of the database, making it possible to deploy web technology applications. In Computing, the Oracle Application Server 10g (the "g" stands for Grid) consists of an integrated standards-based software platform. Java Platform Enterprise Edition or Java EE is a widely used platform for server programming in the Java programming language The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. The application server comprises the first middle-tier software designed for grid computing. In Software engineering, multi-tier architecture (often referred to as n-tier architecture) is a Client-server architecture in which an application Grid computing is a form of Distributed computing whereby a "super and virtual computer" is composed of a cluster of networked loosely-coupled The strong interrelationship between Oracle 10g and Java has enabled the company to allow developers to set up stored procedures written in the Java language, as well as those written in the traditional Oracle database programming language, PL/SQL. A stored procedure is a Subroutine available to applications accessing a relational database system. PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language is Oracle Corporation 's proprietary procedural extension to the SQL database language, used )

Oracle Rdb, a relational database system, runs on OpenVMS platforms. Rdb/VMS is a Relational database management system (RDBMS for the Hewlett-Packard OpenVMS Operating system. Open Virtual Memory System ( OpenVMS) initially known just as Virtual Memory System ( VMS) is the name of a High-end Computer server Oracle acquired Rdb in 1994 from Digital Equipment Corporation. Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the Computer industry Oracle has since made many enhancements to this product and development continues today. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common

Oracle Fusion Middleware

Main article: Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Main article: Oracle Enterprise Manager

Some database administrators (DBAs) use Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) to manage the DBMS. Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM is a portfolio of Software products produced by Oracle, that spans multiple services including J2EE and developer The Computer application Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM or EM aims to manage Software produced by Oracle Corporation as well as by some non-Oracle A database administrator ( DBA) is a person who is responsible for the environmental aspects of a Database. The Computer application Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM or EM aims to manage Software produced by Oracle Corporation as well as by some non-Oracle With Oracle Database version 10g, Oracle Corporation introduced a web-based rewrite of OEM called "Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control". Oracle Corporation has dubbed the super Enterprise Manager used to manage a grid of multiple DBMS and Application Servers as "Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control".

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

Oracle Collaboration Suite

Oracle Collaboration Suite contains messaging, groupware and collaboration applications. Launched in 2000, the Oracle Collaboration Suite represented the first attempt by Oracle Corporation to enter the Enterprise messaging system market

Development software

Oracle Corporation's tools for developing applications include Oracle Designer, Oracle Developer - which consists of Oracle Forms, Oracle Discoverer and Oracle Reports, Oracle JDeveloper - and several more. Oracle Designer is Oracle 's CASE tool for designing an Information system and generating it Oracle Developer Suite is a suite of development tools released by the Oracle Corporation. Oracle Forms is a tool (somewhat like Visual Basic in appearance but the code inside is PL/SQL) which allows a developer to quickly create user-interface applications which In Oracle Database environments Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer or Discoverer comprises a tool-set for ad-hoc querying reporting data analysis and Web-publishing Oracle Reports is a tool for developing reports against data stored in an Oracle database. JDeveloper is a free IDE from Oracle. It offers features for development in Java, XML, SQL and PL/SQL, HTML, Many external and third-party tools make the Oracle database administrator's tasks easier. A database administrator ( DBA) is a person who is responsible for the environmental aspects of a Database.

Application products

Besides databases, Oracle also sells a suite of business applications. A business (also called firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organizational entity designed to provide goods and/or services to The Oracle eBusiness Suite includes software to perform financial- (Oracle Financials), manufacturing-, enterprise resource planning and HR- (Human Resource Management Systems) related functions (Oracle HR). Within the overall rubric of Oracle Applications, Oracle Corporation 's E-Business Suite ("EB-Suite" or "EBS" consists of a collection of Enterprise Within the overall rubric of Oracle Applications, Oracle Corporation 's E-Business Suite ("EB-Suite" or "EBS" consists of a collection of Enterprise Enterprise resource planning ( ERP) is the planning of how business resources (materials employees customers etc Users can access these facilities through a browser interface over the Internet or via a corporate intranet.

Consequent to a number of high-value acquisitions beginning in 2003, especially in the area of applications, Oracle Corporation currently maintains a number of product lines:

Main article: Oracle eBusiness Suite
Main article: PeopleSoft
Main article: Siebel Systems
Main article: J.D. Edwards

Development of applications commonly takes place in Java (using Oracle JDeveloper) or through PL/SQL (using, for example, Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports). 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Within the overall rubric of Oracle Applications, Oracle Corporation 's E-Business Suite ("EB-Suite" or "EBS" consists of a collection of Enterprise PeopleSoft Inc was a company that provided Human resource management systems (HRMS Customer relationship management, Manufacturing Financials Enterprise Siebel Systems Inc was a software company principally engaged in the design development marketing and support of CRM applications JD Edwards, also called JDE is a software company founded in March 1977 in Denver Colorado by Jack Thompson JDeveloper is a free IDE from Oracle. It offers features for development in Java, XML, SQL and PL/SQL, HTML, Oracle Forms is a tool (somewhat like Visual Basic in appearance but the code inside is PL/SQL) which allows a developer to quickly create user-interface applications which Oracle Reports is a tool for developing reports against data stored in an Oracle database. Oracle Corporation has started a drive toward "wizard"-driven environments with a view to enabling non-programmers to produce simple data-driven applications.

Services

Marketing

Sales practices

In 1990 Oracle laid off 10% (about 400 people) of its work force because of a mismatch between cash and revenues. This crisis, which almost resulted in Oracle's bankruptcy, came about because of Oracle's "up-front" marketing strategy, in which sales people urged potential customers to buy the largest possible amount of software all at once. The sales people then booked the value of future license sales in the current quarter, thereby increasing their bonuses. This became a problem when the future sales subsequently failed to materialize. Oracle eventually had to restate its earnings twice, and also to settle out of court class-action lawsuits arising from its having overstated its earnings. In Law, a class action or a representative action is a form of Lawsuit where a large group of people collectively bring a claim to court Ellison would later say that Oracle had made "an incredible business mistake. "

Competition

Although IBM dominated the mainframe relational database market with its DB2 and SQL/DS database products, it delayed entering the market for a relational database on UNIX and Windows operating systems. This left the door open for Sybase, Oracle, and Informix (and eventually Microsoft) to dominate mid-range and microcomputers.

Around this time, Oracle technology started to lag technically behind that of Sybase. Sybase Inc ( is an enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information In 1990-1993 Sybase became the fastest-growing database company and the database industry's darling vendor, but soon fell victim to its merger mania and to technical issues with System X. Sybase's 1993 merger with PowerSoft resulted in its losing its focus on its core database technology. In 1993, Sybase sold the rights to its database software running under the Windows operating system to Microsoft Corporation, which now markets it under the name "SQL Server. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common "

In 1994 Informix Software overtook Sybase and became Oracle's most important rival. Informix is a family of Relational database management system (RDBMS products by IBM. The intense war between Informix CEO Phil White and Ellison made front-page news in Silicon Valley for three years. Ultimately, Oracle defeated Informix in 1997. In November 2005 a book detailing the war between Oracle and Informix appeared. The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White provides a detailed chronology of the battle of Informix against Oracle, and how Informix Software's CEO Phil White landed in jail because of his obsession about overtaking Ellison.

Once it had overcome Informix and Sybase, Oracle Corporation enjoyed years of dominance in the database market until the rise of Microsoft's SQL Server in the late 1990s and IBM's acquisition of Informix Software in 2000 (to complement its DB2 database). Today Oracle's competes for new database licenses on UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems primarily against IBM's DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server (which only runs on Windows). 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common IBM's DB2 still dominates the mainframe database market. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common

In 2004, Oracle's sales grew at a rate of 14. 5% to $6. 2 billion, giving it 41. 3% and the top share of the relational-database market (InformationWeek - March, 2005), with market share estimated at up to 44. 6% in 2005 by some sources. [6] Oracle Corporation's main competitors in the database arena remain IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server, and to a lesser extent Sybase and Teradata [1], with open-source databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL also having a significant share of the market. DB2 is one of IBM 's families of Relational database management system (RDBMS (or as IBM now calls it data server software products within IBM's broader Information Microsoft SQL Server is a Relational database management system (RDBMS produced by Microsoft. Sybase Inc ( is an enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information Teradata Corporation ( is a hardware and software vendor specializing in data warehousing and analytic applications Open source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge PostgreSQL is an Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS MySQL is a Relational database management system (RDBMS which has more than 11 million installations EnterpriseDB, based on PostgreSQL, has recently made inroads[2] by proclaiming that its product delivers Oracle compatibility features at a much lower price-point. EnterpriseDB is a privately-held company that develops and supports Postgres Plus Advanced Server a proprietary relational database management system ( 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common

In the applications market, Oracle Corporation primarily competes against SAP. SAP AG (,) is the largest European Software enterprise and the fourth largest in the world with headquarters in Walldorf, Germany On March 22, 2007 Oracle sued SAP, accusing them of fraud and unfair competition. Events 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor. [7]

Oracle and SAP

Oracle Corporation and the German SAP AG had a decade-long history of cooperation. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. SAP AG (,) is the largest European Software enterprise and the fourth largest in the world with headquarters in Walldorf, Germany This cooperation began in 1988, with the integration of SAP's R/3 enterprise application suite with Oracle's relational database products. SAP R/3 is the former name of the main Enterprise resource planning software produced by SAP AG. The marketplace regarded the two firms' products as complementing one another, rather than as substitutes. Despite the current SAP partnership with Microsoft, and the increasing integration of SAP applications with Microsoft products (such as SQL Server, a competitor to Oracle Database), Oracle and SAP continue their cooperation, and according to Oracle, the majority of SAP's customers use Oracle databases. [8]

In recent years, however, competition between Oracle and SAP has increased, and as a result, the rivalry between the two companies has grown, even developing into a feud between the co-founders of the two companies, where one party would frequently voice strong negative comments about the other company. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common

In 2004 Oracle began to increase its interest in the business of enterprise applications (in 1989, Oracle had already released Oracle Financials). A series of acquisitions by Oracle Corporation began, most notably those of PeopleSoft, Siebel and Hyperion). PeopleSoft Inc was a company that provided Human resource management systems (HRMS Customer relationship management, Manufacturing Financials Enterprise Siebel, originally Flugzeugbau Halle, was a German Aircraft manufacturer in Halle an der Saale. Hyperion Solutions Corporation was a business performance management software company located in Santa Clara California, USA which was acquired by Oracle Corporation

SAP recognized that Oracle had started to become a competitor in a market where SAP had the leadership, and saw an opportunity to lure in customers from those companies that Oracle Corporation had acquired. The word leadership can refer to Those entities that perform one or more acts of leading SAP would offer those customers special discounts on the licenses for its enterprise applications. [9] Oracle Corporation would resort to a similar strategy, by advising SAP customers to get "OFF SAP" (a play on the words of the acronym for its middleware platform "Oracle Fusion for SAP"),[10] and also by providing special discounts on licenses and services to SAP customers who chose Oracle Corporation products. Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are Abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name

Currently Oracle and SAP also compete in the third-party enterprise software maintenance and support market (the latter through its recently acquired subsidiary TomorrowNow). 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common On March 22 2007 Oracle filed a suit against SAP. Events 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor. The complaint alleged that TomorrowNow, which provides discount support for legacy Oracle product lines, used the accounts of former Oracle customers to systematically download patches and support documents from Oracle's website and to appropriate them for SAP's use. [11] [12] Some analysts have suggested the suit could form part of a strategy by Oracle Corporation to decrease competition with SAP in the market for third-party enterprise software maintenance and support. [13][14]

On July 3 2007 SAP admitted that TomorrowNow employees had made "inappropriate downloads" from the Oracle support web site. Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. However, it claims that SAP personnel and SAP customers had no access to Oracle intellectual property via TomorrowNow. SAP's CEO Henning Kagermann stated that "Even a single inappropriate download is unacceptable from my perspective. We regret very much that this occurred. " Additionally, SAP announced that it had "instituted changes" in TomorrowNow's operational oversight. [15]

Slogans

Controversies

Trashgate

In 2000 Oracle drew attention from the industry and in the eyes of the press after hiring private eyes to dig through the trash of organizations involved in the Microsoft antitrust trial. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" [16] The Chairman of Oracle Corporation, Larry Ellison, staunchly defended his company's hiring of an East Coast detective agency to investigate groups that supported rival Microsoft Corporation during its antitrust trial, calling the snooping a "public service". The investigation reportedly included a $1,200 offer to janitors at the Association for Competitive Technology to look through Microsoft's trash. Asked how he'd feel if others were looking into Oracle's business activities, Ellison said: "We will ship our garbage to Redmond, and they can go through it. We believe in full disclosure. "[17]

"Can't break it, can't break in"

Oracle Corporation markets many of its products using the slogan "Can't break it, can't break in", or "Unbreakable". This signifies the increasing demands on information safety. Oracle Corporation also stresses the reliability of networked databases and network access to databases as major selling points.

However, two weeks after its introduction in 2002, David Litchfield, Alexander Kornbrust, Cesar Cerrudo and others demonstrated a whole suite of successful attacks against Oracle products. David Litchfield (born 1975) is a renowned security expert from the United Kingdom who focuses on the discovery and publication of computer security vulnerabilities with a special Alexander Kornbrust is the founder and CEO of Red-Database-Security GmbH, a company specialized in Oracle security [18][19] Commentators criticized the slogan as unrealistic, and as an invitation to crackers. In common usage hacker is generic term for a computer criminal often with a specific specialty in computer intrusion But Oracle Corporation's chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson portrayed the criticism as unfair. Mary Ann Davidson is the Chief Security Officer of Oracle Corporation, the second largest software company in the world Rather than representing a literal claim of Oracle's products' impregnability, she saw the campaign in the context of fourteen independent security evaluations[20] that Oracle Corporation's database server passed.

Relationship with John Ashcroft

Former United States Attorney General John Ashcroft sued Oracle Corporation in 2004 to prevent a contract acquisition. The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice (see) concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement John David Ashcroft (born May 9 1942) is an American Politician who was the 79th United States Attorney General. Then, in 2005, Oracle hired Ashcroft's recently-founded lobbying firm, The Ashcroft Group, LLC. Oracle, with Ashcroft's lobbying, then went on to acquire the contract, a multi-billion dollar intelligence application. [21]

Headquarters

Oracle HQ.
Oracle HQ.

Oracle Corporation has its world headquarters on the San Francisco Peninsula in the Redwood Shores area of Redwood City, adjacent to Belmont, near San Carlos Airport (IATA airport code: SQL). The San Francisco Peninsula in California separates the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. Redwood Shores is an affluent waterfront neighborhood on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California Belmont is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. San Carlos Airport is a small General aviation airport located two miles (3 km) northeast of the Central business district (CBD of San Carlos An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many

Oracle HQ stands on the former site of Marine World Africa USA, which moved from Redwood Shores to Vallejo in 1986. Marine World/Africa USA, was a tourist attraction located in Redwood Shores, California Vallejo (vəˈleɪoʊ or /vəˈleɪhoʊ/ in English /baˈjeho/ in the original Spanish) is the largest city in Solano County Oracle Corporation originally leased two buildings on the site, moving its finance and administration departments from the corporation's former headquarters in Davis Drive, Belmont, California. Belmont is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. Eventually, Oracle purchased the complex and constructed a further four main buildings.

The Oracle Parkway buildings featured prominently as the futuristic headquarters of the fictional company "NorthAm Robotics" in the Robin Williams film Bicentennial Man (1999). Robin McLaurim Williams (born July 21 1951 or 1952 is an American television stage and film actor and Comedian who has won an Academy Award for his performance Bicentennial Man or Andrew—NDR114 in Japan, is a 1999 film starring Robin Williams based on the well-known [22]

Sponsorship

On October 20, 2006 the Golden State Warriors and the Oracle Corporation announced a 10-year agreement in which the Oakland Arena would become known as the Oracle Arena. Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Golden State Warriors are an American professional Basketball team based in Oakland, California. The Oracle Arena, also known by its former names of the Oakland Coliseum Arena, the Oakland Arena, the Arena In Oakland, and The New Arena is

Note also Larry Ellison's yachting sponsorship using the "Oracle" name: Oracle BMW Racing. BMW Oracle Racing is an American sailboat racing syndicate initially formed to compete in the 2003 America’s Cup under the name Oracle.

People

Bruce Scott, one of the first employees at Oracle (then Software Development Laboratories), subsequently co-founded Gupta Technologies (which later became Centura Software) in 1984 with Umang Gupta, and later became CEO and founder of PointBase, Inc. Gupta Technologies, LLC was a software development company whose principal products were the SQL relational database SQLBase, and Bruce served as the co-author and co-architect of Oracle V1, V2 and V3. He originated the sample schema "SCOTT" (containing tables like EMP and DEPT) with the password defaulted to TIGER (apparently named after his cat).

In 1997, Larry Ellison became a director of Apple Computer after Steve Jobs came back to that company. Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955 is the Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc and former CEO of Pixar Animation Ellison resigned in 2002, saying that he did not have the time to attend necessary formal board meetings.

Trivia

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Oracle.com FAQ, oraFAQ.com
  2. ^ Codd, E. F. (1970). "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks". Communications of the ACM 13 (6): 377–387. Communications of the ACM ( CACM) is the flagship monthly Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM  
  3. ^ Oracle anniversary timeline, page 4. Retrieved 2008-05-15
  4. ^ Oracle to Acquire BEA Systems
  5. ^ Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Retrieved 2008-05-15. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the
  6. ^ http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/infrastructure/dbms/idc-201692.pdf
  7. ^ Karen Gullo and Connie Guglielmo. "Oracle Claims Rival SAP Stole Software and Data (Update4)", Bloomberg, March 22, 2007. Bloomberg LP is a financial software services news and data company Retrieved on 2007-03-22. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor.  
  8. ^ Oracle/SAP : Relationship. Oracle, on its relationship with SAP.
  9. ^ Safe Passage Program
  10. ^ Oracle press release
  11. ^ http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_mar/sapsuit.html
  12. ^ http://www.oracle.com/sapsuit
  13. ^ Gohring, Nancy; Elizabeth Montalbano. "Maintenance Contracts at Heart of Oracle, SAP Dispute". CIO India.  
  14. ^ The lawsuit As barometer: SAP finally scores big with TomorrowNow | Enterprise Anti-matter | ZDNet.com
  15. ^ SAP Responds to Oracle Complaint
  16. ^ Oracle Rethinks Its Dumpster-Diving Ways
  17. ^ Swing Shift Column, San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) (December , 2000)
  18. ^ The Register: "Oracle security claim"
  19. ^ The Register: "How to hack unbreakable Oracle"
  20. ^ Oracle list of major Security certifications Oracle list of major Security certifications
  21. ^ Chicago Tribune: "Ashcroft breaks with tradition by lobbying, has earned $269,000"
  22. ^ IMDb: Trivia for Bicentennial Man

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