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1977: Larry Ellison and friends(Bob miner & Ed Oates founded Software Development Laboratories. CIA-USA wants its large data to be organised and accessed quickly and bid for this project was awarded to SDL and name of project was ORACLE- which means prophecy i.e. the god’s man who make correct predictions. But latter in ’77 CIA canceled funding to oracle origin of scott/tiger bruce scott: name of developer tiger : his cat  1978: oracle V1 was written and released. It was written in assembly language on PDP-11 under RSX-OS.but this version was never relesed out. 1979: SDL changed its company-name to "Relational Software, Inc." (RSI) and introduced its product Oracle V2 as an early commerciallyavailable relational database system. The version did not support transactions, but implemented the basic SQL functionality of queries and joins. (RSI never released a version 1 - instead calling the first version version 2 as a marketing gimmick.)[27] 1982: RSI in its turn changed its name, becoming known as "Oracle Corporation",[28] to align itself more closely with its flagship product. 1983: The company released Oracle version 3, which it had re-written using the C programming language and which supported COMMIT and ROLLBACK functionality for transactions. Version 3 extended platform support from the existing Digital VAX/VMS systems to include Unix environments. Oracle opens first international office at oracle denmark. 1984: Oracle Corporation released Oracle version 4, which supported read-consistency. Oracle moves ot 20 davis drive,redwood city, CA 1985: Oracle Corporation released Oracle version 5, which supported the client-server model — a sign of networks becoming more widely available in the mid-1980s. 1986: Oracle version 5.1 started supporting distributed queries. 1987: comapnay sales reaches $131 million. Larry ellison is still personaly interviewing every candidate before a job offer is made. 1988: Oracle RDBMS version 6 came out with support for PL/SQL embedded within Oracle Forms v3 (version 6 could not store PL/SQL in the database proper), row-level locking and hot backups . oracle moves ot present HQ : 500 oracle parkway, redwood city - CA

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1989: Oracle Corporation entered the application products market and developed its ERP product, (later to become part of the Oracle EBusiness Suite), based on the Oracle relational database . 1990: the release of Oracle Applications release 8[28] 1992: Oracle version 7 appeared with support for referential integrity, stored procedures and triggers. 1997: Oracle Corporation released version 8, which supported objectoriented development and multimedia applications. 1999: The release of Oracle8i aimed to provide a database interoperating better with the Internet (the i in the name stands for "Internet"). The Oracle 8i database incorporated a native Java virtual machine (Oracle JVM). 2000: Oracle E-Business Suite 11i pioneers integrated enterprise application software[28] 2001: Oracle9i went into release with 400 new features, including the ability to read and write XML documents. 9i also provided an option for Oracle RAC, or "Real Application Clusters", a computer-cluster database, as a replacement for the Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) option. 2003: Oracle Corporation released Oracle Database 10g. (The g stands for "grid"; emphasizing a marketing thrust of presenting 10g as "gridcomputing ready".) 2005: Oracle Database 10.2.0.1 — also known as Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10gR2) — appeared. 2006: Oracle Corporation announces Unbreakable Linux[28] 2007: Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Sets New World Record TPC-H 3000 GB Benchmark Result[30] 2007: Oracle Corporation released Oracle Database 11g for Linux and for Microsoft Windows. 2008: Oracle Corporation acquires BEA Systems. 2009: Oracle Corporation acquires Sun Microsystems.

Competitors Oracle's main competitors in the database business are: • • • • •

Microsoft SQL Server IBM with DB2 and Informix Sybase with their Sybase System CA with Ingres Software AG with ADABAS and MaxDB

Open source databases (free, but normally way behind their commercial equivalents): • • •

MySQL PostgreSQL EnterpriseDB

Oracle's main competitors in the middleware/ application servers business are: • •

IBM WebSphere BEA WebLogic (until January 2008 when they bought the company)

Oracle's main competitors in the applications business are: •

SAP R/3

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