Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products — particularly database management systems. Oracle has enlarged its share of the software market through organic growth and through a number of high-profile acquisitions. By 2007 Oracle had the third-largest software revenue, after Microsoft and IBM.
The corporation has arguably become best-known due to association with its flagship product, the Oracle database. The company also builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software.
As of 2009, Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle Corporation, has served as Oracle's CEO throughout its entire history. Ellison also served as the Chairman of the Board until his replacement by Jeffrey O. Henley in 2004. Ellison retains his role as CEO.
History
Ellison took inspiration from the 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database management systems (RDBMS) named "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks". 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). 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 to align itself more closely with its flagship product Oracle Database. At this stage Robert Miner served as the company's senior programmer.
Part of Oracle Corporation's early success arose from using the C programming language to implement its products. This eased porting to different operating systems (most of which support C). This gave Oracle Corporation an advantage over companies that used operating-system-specific languages. Oracle Corporation programmers wrote the first C compiler for the IBM mainframe platform in order to port to that platform.
Overall timeline
- June 16, 1977: Oracle Corporation incorporated in Redwood Shores, California as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
- June 1979: SDL renamed to "Relational Software Inc." (RSI), and relocated to Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California. Oracle 2, the first version of the Oracle database software, as purchased by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, runs on PDP-11 hardware. The company decides to name the first version of its flagship product "version 2" rather than "version 1" because it believes customers might hesitate to buy the initial release of its product.
- October 1979: RSI actively promotes Oracle on the VAX platform (the software runs on the VAX in PDP-11 emulator mode)
- 1981 Umang Gupta joins Oracle Corporation, where he writes the first business plan for the company and served as Vice President and General Manager
- February 1981: RSI begins developing tools for the Oracle Database, including the Interactive Application Facility (IAF), a predecessor to Oracle*Forms.
- March 1983: RSI rewrites Oracle in C for portability and releases Oracle version 3. RSI takes the name "Oracle" in order to align more closely with its primary product. The name Oracle came from the code name of a CIA project which the founders had all worked on while at the Ampex Corporation.
- April 1984: Oracle receives additional funding from Sequoia Capital.
- October 1984: Oracle version 4 released, introducing read consistency
- November 1984: Oracle database software ported to the PC platform. The MS-DOS version (4.1.4) of Oracle runs in only 512K of memory. (Oracle for MSDOS version 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 released — one of the first RDBMSs to operate in client-server mode.
- 1986: Oracle version 5.1 released with support for distributed queries. Investigations into clustering begin.
- March 12, 1986: Oracle goes public with revenues of $55 million USD.
- August 1987: Oracle founds its Applications division, building business-management software closely integrated with its database software. Oracle Corporation acquires TCI for its project management software.
- 1988: Oracle version 6 released with support for row-level locking and hot backups. The developers embedded the PL/SQL procedural language engine into the database but made no provision to store program blocks such as procedures and triggers in the database - this capability came in version 7. Users could submit PL/SQL blocks for immediate execution in the server from an environment such as SQL*Plus, or via SQL statements embedded in a host program. Oracle Corporation included separate PL/SQL engines in various client tools (such as SQL*Forms and Reports).
- 1989: Oracle Corporation moves its world headquarters to Redwood Shores, California. Revenues reach US$584 million
- 1990: In the third quarter, Oracle reports its first ever loss; it lays off hundreds of employees. Ellison hires Jeffrey O. Henley as CFO and Raymond Lane as COO.
- June 1992: Oracle 7 released with performance enhancements, administrative utilities, application-development tools, security features, the ability to persist PL/SQL program units in the database as stored procedures and triggers, and support for declarative referential integrity
- 1993: Oracle Corporation releases its "Cooperative Development Environment" (CDE), which bundles Oracle Forms, Reports, Graphics, Book
- 1994: Oracle acquires the database-product DEC Rdb (subsequently called Oracle Rdb) from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Oracle Rdb operates only on the OpenVMS platform (also a former product of DEC).
- June 21, 1995: Oracle Corporation announces new data-warehousing facilities, including parallel queries.
- November 1995: Oracle becomes one of the first large software companies to announce an Internet strategy when Ellison introduces the network computer concept at an IDC conference in Paris
- April 1997: Oracle releases the first version of Discoverer, an ad-hoc query tool for business intelligence (BI).
- June 1997: Oracle 8 released with SQL object technology, Internet technology and support for terabytes of data
- September 1997: Oracle Corporation announces a commitment to the Java platform, and introduces Oracle's Java integrated development environment, subsequently called "Oracle JDeveloper".
- January 1998: Oracle releases Oracle Applications 10.7 Network Computing Architecture (NCA). All the applications in the business software now run across the web in a standard web browser.
- May 1998: Oracle Corporation releases Oracle Applications 11
- April 1998: Oracle announces that it will integrate a Java virtual machine with Oracle Database.
- September 1998: Oracle 8i released.
- October 1998: Oracle 8 and Oracle Application Server 4.0 released on the Linux platform.
- May 1999: Oracle releases JDeveloper 2.0, showcasing Business Components for Java (BC4J), a set of libraries and development tools for building database-aware applications.
- 2000: OracleMobile subsidiary founded. Oracle 9i released.
- May 2000: Oracle announces the Internet File System (iFS), later re-branded as Oracle Content Management SDK.
- June 2000: Oracle9i Application Server released with support for building portals
- 2001: Ellison announces that Oracle saved $1 billion by implementing and using its own business applications
- 2004: Oracle 10g released
- December 13, 2004: After a long battle over the control of PeopleSoft, Oracle announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire PeopleSoft for $26.50 per share (approximately $10.3 billion).
- January 14, 2005: Oracle Corporation announces that it will reduce its combined workforce to 50,000, a reduction of approximately 5,000 following the take-over of PeopleSoft. Oracle Corporation plans to retain 90% of PeopleSoft product-development and product-support staff.
- March, 2005: Oracle Corporation extends its operations in the Middle East by opening a regional office in Amman, Jordan.
- September 2005: Oracle Corporation announces that it has agreed to acquire the private company Global Logistics Technologies, Inc., a global provider of logistics and transportation management software (TMS) solutions, through a cash offer
- September 12, 2005: Oracle Corporation announces its purchase of Siebel Systems, a producer of customer relationship management (CRM) technologies and a provider of business intelligence software, for $5.8 billion
- April 12, 2006: Oracle Corporation announces its forthcoming acquisition of Portal Software, Inc. (OTC BB: PRSF.PK), a global provider of billing- and revenue-management solutions for the communications and media industry, through a cash tender offer for $4.90 per share, or approximately $220 million.
- October 25, 2006: Oracle Corporation announces Unbreakable Linux
- November 2, 2006: Oracle Corporation announces that it has agreed to acquire Stellent, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEL)
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