Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company, headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. The company specializes in developing and marketing software and database technology, cloud engineering systems, and enterprise software products - notably its own brand of database management system. In 2015, Oracle is the second largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft.
The company also develops and builds tools for the development of databases and mid-level software systems, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management software (SCM).
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Histori
Larry Ellison founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories ( SDL ). Ellison took the inspiration from a 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on a relational database management system (RDBMS) called "Relational Data Model for Large Joint Data Bank." He heard about the IBM R System database from an article in IBM Research Journal provided by Oates. Also derived from Codd's theory, Ellison wanted to make Oracle products compatible with System R, but failed to do so because IBM kept error codes for their DBMS secret. SDL changed its name to Relational Software, Inc. ( RSI ) in 1979, then returned to Oracle Systems Corporation in 1982, to align itself closer to its flagship product Oracle Database. At this stage Bob Miner serves as the company's senior programmer. On March 12, 1986, the company had an initial public offering. In 1995, Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corporation , officially named Oracle, but sometimes referred to as Oracle Corporation, the parent company's name. Part of the early success of Oracle Corporation emerged from the use of C programming language to implement its products. This makes it easy to port to different operating systems (most support C).
Technology time line
- 1979: offers the first commercial SQL RDBMS
- 1983: offers the VAX-mode database
- 1984: offers the first database with read consistency
- 1986: offers client-server DBMS
- 1987: introducing UNIX-based Oracle applications
- 1988: introduces PL/SQL
- 1992: offers a complete app implementation methodology
- 1995: offers the first 64-bit RDBMS
- 1996: moving towards an open web-based web-based architecture
- 1999: offers the first DBMS with XML support
- 2001: being the first to complete 3 terabytes of TPC-H world record
- 2002: offers the first database to provide 15 industry standard security evaluations
- 2003: introduces the so-called "Grid Computing Company" with Oracle10 g
- 2005: released its first free database, Oracle Database 10 g Express Edition (XE)
- 2008: Smart scanning in software improves query response in HP Oracle Database Machine/Exadata storage
- 2010: Acquired Sun Microsystems
- 2013: start using Oracle 12c capable of providing cloud services with Oracle Database
- 2016: Acquired NetSuite Inc.
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Products and services
Oracle designs, manufactures, and sells both software and hardware products, and offers services that complement them (such as financing, training, consulting, and hosting services). Many products have been added to Oracle's portfolio through acquisitions.
Software
The E-Oracle shipping service (Oracle Software Delivery Cloud) provides generic downloadable Oracle software and documentation.
Database
- The Oracle Database
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- Release 10: In 2004, Oracle Corporation sent the release of 10 g standing for "grid") as the latest version of Oracle Database. (Oracle Application Server 10 g uses Java EE integrated with the server part of the database version, making it possible to deploy web technology applications.The application server consists of the first mid-level software designed for grid computing. Oracle 10 g and Java allow developers to manage stored procedures written in the Java language, as well as those written in the traditional Oracle database programming language, PL/SQL.) Released 11g became the current version of Oracle Database in 2007. Oracle Corporation released Oracle Database 11g Release 2 in September 2009. This version is available in four commercial editions - Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard Edition and Personal Edition - and in one free edition - Express Edition. The licensing of this edition shows the various restrictions and obligations called complex by the licensing expert Freirich Florea. The Enterprise Edition (DB EE), the most expensive of the Database Editions, has the fewest restrictions - yet has a complicated license. Oracle Corporation limits Standard Edition (DB SE) and Standard One Edition (SE1) with more licensing restrictions, at a lower price.
- Release 12: Release 12 c ( c standing for "cloud") will be available on July 1, 2013.
Oracle Corporation has acquired and developed the following additional database technologies:
- Berkeley DB, which offers embedded database processing
- Oracle Rdb, a relational database system running on the OpenVMS platform. Oracle acquired Rdb in 1994 from Digital Equipment Corporation. Since then, Oracle has made many improvements to this product and development until 2008.
- TimesTen, which displays in-memory database operations
- Oracle Essbase, which continues the Hyperion Essbase tradition of multi-dimensional database management
- MySQL, a relational database management system licensed under the GNU General Public License, originally developed by MySQL AB
- Oracle NoSQL Database, NoSQL database distributed distributed key value
Middleware
Oracle Fusion Middleware is a family of middleware software products, including (for example) application servers, system integration, business process management (BPM), user interaction, content management, identity management and business intelligence (BI).
Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES), Oracle's enterprise search offerings, gives users the ability to search content across multiple locations, including websites, XML files, file servers, content management systems, enterprise resource planning systems, customer relationship management systems, business systems intelligence, and database.
Oracle Beehive
Released in 2008, Oracle Beehive collaboration software provides team workspaces (including wiki, team calendars and file sharing), email, calendars, instant messaging, and conferences on a single platform. Customer may use the Bee Hive as a licensed software or as software as a service ("SaaS").
Apps
Oracle also sells a series of business applications. Oracle E-Business Suite includes software to perform various corporate functions related to (eg) finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human resource management. Oracle Retail Suite includes retail industry verticals, providing merchandise management, pricing management, invoice matching, allocation, store operations management, warehouse management, demand forecasting, financial goods planning, various planning and category management. Users can access this facility through the browser interface via the Internet or via corporate intranet.
After a number of acquisitions began in 2003, especially in the field of application, Oracle Corporation in 2008 maintained a number of product lines:
- Oracle Fusion Application
- PeopleSoft Enterprise
- Siebel
- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
- JD Edwards World
- Merchandising Operations Management (Previously REC)
- Planning & amp; Optimization
- Store Operation (Formerly 360Commerce)
Application development usually occurs in Java (using Oracle JDeveloper) or via PL/SQL (using, for example, Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports/BIPublisher). Oracle Corporation has embarked on a journey to the "wizard" -driven environment with a view to allowing non-programmers to generate simple data-driven applications.
Third-party apps
Oracle Corporation works with "Oracle Certified Partners" to improve overall product marketing. Various applications from third-party vendors include database applications for archiving, separation and control, ERP and CRM systems, as well as more niche and focused products that provide commercial functions in areas such as human resources, financial control and governance, management risk, and compliance (GRC). Vendors include Hewlett-Packard, UC4 Software, Motus, and Knoa Software.
Enterprise management
Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) provides web-based monitoring and management tools for Oracle products (and for some third-party software), including database management, middleware management, application management, hardware and virtualization management, and cloud management.
The Primavera product of Oracle Primavera Global Business Unit (PGBU) consists of project management software.
ORAchk (formerly RACchk) checks the software in the Oracle software stack and reports the problem.
Software development
Oracle Corporation tools for developing applications include (among others):
- Oracle Designer - a CASE tool integrated with Oracle Developer Suite
- Oracle Developer - which consists of Oracle Forms, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle Reports
- Oracle JDeveloper, a freeware IDE
- NetBeans, Java-based software development platform
- Oracle Application Express - also known as APEX; for web-oriented development
- Oracle SQL Developer, an integrated development environment to work with SQL-based databases
- Oracle SQL * Plus Worksheet, a component of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
- OEPE, Oracle Enterprise Packages for Eclipse
- Open the Java Development Kit
Many external and third-party tools make it easy for Oracle database administrator tasks.
File system
- ZFS merges file-system and logical volume management functionality.
Operating system
Oracle Corporation develops and supports two operating systems: Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux.
Hardware
- The Sun hardware range acquired by Sun Corporation's purchase of Sun Microsystems
- The Oracle SPARC T-series and M-series mainframes were developed and released after Sun's acquisition
- Engineering systems: pre-assembled and pre-assembled hardware/software bundles for enterprise use
- Exadata Database Engine - integrated storage of hardware/software
- Exalogic Elastic Cloud - an integrated hardware/software application server
- Exalytics In-Memory Machine - hardware/software integrated in memory analysis server
- Oracle Database Tool
- Big Data Appliance - integrated data-less/big data solution
- SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 - system designed with general purpose
Service
Oracle Cloud
Oracle Cloud is a cloud computing service offered by Oracle Corporation that provides servers, storage, networks, applications, and services through Oracle Corporation's global network of data centers. The company allows these services to be provided on demand via the Internet.
Oracle Cloud provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Ã, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Ã, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Data as a Service (DaaS). This service is used to build, deploy, integrate, and extend applications in the cloud. The platform supports open standards (SQL, HTML5, REST, etc.) open-source solutions (Kubernetes, Ã, Hadoop, Ã, Kafka, etc.) and various programming languages, Ã, databases, framework tools and frameworks including Oracle specific, Ã , Open Source and third party software and systems.
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Enterprise Applications: SCM, EPM, HCM, ERP, and CX SaaS offerings
- The Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- has branded its platform as the Service as Oracle Cloud Platform (OCP). Oracle Cloud Platform offerings include Data Management, Application Development, Integration, Content and Experience, Business Analysis, Management, and Security.
- Service platforms for building and deploying applications or extending SaaS applications: databases, Java application servers, mobile, business analysis, integration, process, large data, Internet of Things, Node.js etc.
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Oracle has defined Infrastructure as a Service as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offer includes the following services.
- Count Service
- Storage Service
- Network Services
- Oracle has defined Infrastructure as a Service as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offer includes the following services.
On July 28, 2016, Oracle bought NetSuite, the first cloud company, for $ 9.3 billion. On May 16, 2018, Oracle announced it had acquired DataScience.com, a private cloud workspace platform for data science projects and workloads.
More Services
- Oracle Consulting - technical and business services expert
- Oracle Financing
- Oracle Support
- Product support: Oracle Corporation identifies its customers and their support rights using the CSI code (Customer Support Identifier). Registered subscribers may submit a Service Request (SR) - typically through My Oracle Support (MOS) accessible via the web, Oracle Metalink reincarnation with web access managed by the Customer Customer Administrator (CUA) site.
- Patch Critical Update: since 2005 Oracle Corporation has grouped patches of patches and security fixes for its products quarterly into "Critical Patch Update" (CPU), released every January, April, July and October.
- Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM, formerly Configuration repository or CCR) collects and uploads Oracle software configuration details.
- Oracle Automatic Service Request (ASR) automatically generates a Service Request for certain hardware errors on Oracle servers, storage, Oracle Exadata, and an eligible Oracle Exalogic product.
- My Oracle Support Community (MOSC)
- Oracle University (training in Oracle products)
- Oracle Certification Program
Marketing
Sales practices
In 1990, Oracle laid off 10% (about 400 people) of its workforce due to an accounting error. This crisis occurs because of Oracle's "in advance" marketing strategy, where sales people are urging potential customers to buy as much software as possible. The sales people then order the value of future license sales in the current quarter, thus increasing their bonuses. This becomes a problem when future sales then fail to materialize. Oracle eventually has to restate its earnings twice, and also resolve a class action suit that emerges from the outside that has exaggerated its earnings. Ellison stated in 1992 that Oracle has made "a tremendous business mistake."
Competition
In 1994, Informix took over Sybase and became Oracle's most important rival. A great battle between Informix CEO Phil White and Ellison made front-page news in Silicon Valley for three years. Informix claims that Oracle has hired Informix engineers to reveal important trade secrets about upcoming products. Informix finally dropped a lawsuit against Oracle in 1997. In November 2005, a book detailing the war between Oracle and Informix was published, titled The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White. It provides a detailed chronology of Informix battles against Oracle, and how Informix Software CEO Phil White landed in prison for his obsession with overtaking Ellison.
After successfully overcoming Informix and Sybase, Oracle Corporation enjoyed years of dominance in the database market until the use of Microsoft SQL Server became widespread in the late 1990s and IBM acquired Informix Software in 2001 (to complement its DB2 database). Today Oracle is competing for a new database license on UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems primarily against IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server. IBM DB2 still dominates the mainframe database market.
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 an estimated market share at up to 44.6% in 2005 by several sources. Oracle Corporation's main competitors in the fixed database arena of IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server, and to a lesser extent Sybase and Teradata, with open-source databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL also have significant market share. EnterpriseDB, based on PostgreSQL, recently made a breakthrough by stating that its products provide Oracle compatibility features at a much lower price point.
In the software application market, Oracle Corporation mainly competes with SAP. On March 22, 2007, Oracle sued SAP, accusing them of fraud and unhealthy competition.
In the market for business intelligence software, many other software companies - small and large - have managed to compete in quality with Oracle and SAP products. Business intelligence vendors can be categorized into "big four" BI companies such as Oracle, which have entered the BI market through recent acquisition trends (including Hyperion Solutions), and independent "pure play" vendors such as MicroStrategy, Actuate, and SAS.
Oracle Financials was ranked Top 20 of Infographic's Most Popular Accounting Software by Capterra in 2014, beating SAP and a host of other competitors.
Oracle and SAP
From 1988, Oracle Corporation and the German company SAP AG have a history of cooperation for a decade, starting with the integration of R/3 enterprise suite of SAP applications with Oracle relational database products. Although SAP partnerships with Microsoft, and increased integration of SAP applications with Microsoft products (such as Microsoft SQL Server, competitors for Oracle Database), Oracle and SAP continue their collaboration. According to Oracle Corporation, the majority of SAP customers use Oracle database.
In 2004, Oracle began to increase its interest in the enterprise-application market (in 1989, Oracle has released Oracle Financials). A series of acquisitions by Oracle Corporation began, especially with PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and Hyperion.
SAP recognizes that Oracle has started to become a competitor in a market where SAP has leadership, and sees opportunities to attract customers from companies that Oracle Corporation has acquired. SAP will offer its customers a special discount on licenses for its corporate applications.
Oracle Corporation will use the same strategy, by advising SAP customers to get "OFF SAP" (play the words of acronym for Oracle's Fusion for SAP "middleware platform), and also by providing special discounts for licenses and services to SAP customers choose Oracle Corporation products.
Currently Oracle and SAP (the latter through TomorrowNow's recently acquired subsidiaries) compete in the third-party software maintenance and support market. On March 22, 2007, Oracle filed a lawsuit against SAP. In Oracle Corporation v. SAP AG Oracle alleges that TomorrowNow, which provides discount support for Oracle's legacy product line, uses former Oracle customer accounts to systematically download patches and supporting documents from the Oracle website and to customize them with SAP usage. Some analysts argue that the lawsuit could be part of Oracle Corporation's strategy to reduce competition with SAP in the market for third-party company software maintenance and support.
On July 3, 2007, SAP acknowledged that TomorrowNow employees have made "inappropriate downloads" from the Oracle support website. However, it claims that SAP and SAP customers do not have access to Oracle's intellectual property through TomorrowNow. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann stated that "Even one inappropriate download is unacceptable from my perspective.We are very sorry that this happened." In addition, SAP announced that it has "implemented changes" in TomorrowNow's operational supervision.
On November 23, 2010, a US district court jury in Oakland, California found that SAP AG had to pay Oracle Corp. $ 1.3 billion for copyright infringement, providing compensation that could be the biggest violation of copyright. While acknowledging liabilities, SAP estimates damages of no more than $ 40 million, while Oracle claims that they are at least $ 1.65 billion. The amount awarded is one of the 10 or 20 largest jury decisions in the history of U.S. law. SAP says they are disappointed with the verdict and may appeal. On September 1, 2011, a federal judge overturned the verdict and offered a reduction in the number or a new trial, calling the Oracle original award "overly". Oracle chose a new trial.
On August 3, 2012, SAP and Oracle agreed on a $ 306 million valuation in damages, pending approval from US district court judges, "to save time and expense [a] new trial". Once approval is approved, Oracle may request a federal appeals court to return a previous jury verdict. In addition to damage payments, SAP has paid Oracle $ 120 million for legal fees.
Slogan
- "Information is pushed"
- For Oracle Database: "Can not damage it, can not enter" and "Can not be solved"
- Enabling the Information Age
- Enabling the Information Age Through Network Computing "
- Since 2008: "Information Company"
- Start 2010: "Complete Hardware Software."
- End of 2010: "Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together"
- Beginning in mid 2015: "Cloud Apps and Integrated Platform Services"
Media
Oracle Corporation manufactures and distributes the "ClearView Oracle" video series as part of its marketing mix.
Controversy
Trashgate
In 2000, Oracle caught the attention of the computer industry and the press after hiring private investigators to trash garbage from organizations involved in antitrust trials involving Microsoft. Oracle Corporation chairman Larry Ellison staunchly defended his company that employed an East Coast detective agency to investigate groups that support Microsoft Corporation rivals during his antitrust trial, calling surveillance "public services". Investigations reportedly included a $ 1,200 bid for janitors at the Competitive Technology Association to look around Microsoft's garbage. When asked how he feels when others look into Oracle's business activities, Ellison said: "We will send our garbage to Redmond, and they can get through it.We believe in full disclosure."
"Can not damage it, can 't break in "
In 2002, Oracle Corporation marketed many of its products using the slogan "Can not Ruin it, Can not Get in", or "Unbreakable". This signifies the demand for information security. Oracle Corporation also emphasizes the reliability of network databases and network access to the database as the main selling point.
However, two weeks after its introduction, David Litchfield, Alexander Kornbrust, Cesar Cerrudo, and others demonstrated a series of successful attacks on Oracle products. Oracle Corporation Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson said that, instead of representing a literal claim to the inability of Oracle's products, he saw the campaign in the context of fourteen independent security evaluations completed by the Oracle Corporation database server.
Relationship with John Ashcroft
In 2004, the then US Attorney General John Ashcroft sued Oracle Corporation to prevent him from obtaining a multibillion-dollar intelligence contract. After Ashcroft's resignation from the government, he founded the lobbying company, The Ashcroft Group, hired Oracle in 2005. With the help of the group, Oracle went on to get a contract.
Expeditionary Support System
Computer Sciences Corporation reportedly spent a billion dollars developing a computer system for the United States Air Force that did not produce significant capabilities, because, according to Air Force sources, the Oracle software on which the system is based can not be adapted to meet specific needs. performance criteria.
Close, Oregon Healthcare Exchange
Oracle Corporation was awarded a contract by the Oregon Oregon State Health Authority (OHA) to develop the Oregon Cover, the state health exchange website, as part of the US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. When a site tries to go live on October 1, 2013, it fails, and registration must be done using a paper application until the site can be fixed.
On April 25, 2014, the State of Oregon decided to stop Cover Oregon and instead use federal exchanges to register Oregon residents. The cost of switching to a federal portal is estimated at $ 5 million, while setting up the Oregon Cover will cost another $ 78 million.
Oracle President Safra Catz responded to Oregon and OHA Trash in a letter claiming that the site's problems were due to OHA management errors, specifically that third-party system integrators were not hired to manage complex projects.
In August 2014, Oracle Corporation sued Oregon Close for breach of contract, and then that month the state of Oregon sued Oracle Corporation, in a civil litigation for breach of contract, fraud, filing of false claims and "extortion". In September 2016, the two sides reached a settlement worth more than $ 100 million to the state, and a six-year agreement for Oracle to continue the modernization of state and IT software.
Events
Acquisition of Sun Microsystems
On January 27, 2010, Oracle announced it had completed the acquisition of Sun Microsystems - worth over $ 7 billion - a move that transformed Oracle from just a software company into a software and hardware manufacturer. The acquisition was delayed for several months by the EU Commission because of concerns about MySQL, but was eventually approved unconditionally. This acquisition is important for some people in the open source community as well as for some other companies, because they fear Oracle will end Sun's traditional support for open source projects. Since the acquisition, Oracle has discontinued OpenSolaris and StarOffice, and sued Google for a new Java patent they acquired from Sun. As of September 2011, the cable of the US State Embassy was leaked to WikiLeaks. One cable reveals that the US is pressing E.U. to allow Oracle to acquire Sun.
Justice Department lawsuit
On July 29, 2010, the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Oracle Corporation accusing the fraud. The lawsuit stated that the government accepted a lower deal than Oracle gave to its commercial clients. The DoJ added his burden to the existing whistleblower suit filed by Paul Frascella, who was once the senior director of contract services at Oracle. It was completed in May 2012
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Oracle, the plaintiff, purchased the Java computer programming language when it acquired Sun Microsystems in January 2010. The Java software includes a set of pre-developed software code to accomplish consistent general tasks between programs and applications. Pre-developed codes are organized into separate "packages" each containing a set of methods. The packages are then organized into a larger "class". Each method instructs the program or application to perform a specific task. Software developers "become used to using Java designations in package, class, and method level."
Oracle and Google (defendants) are trying to negotiate an agreement for Oracle to license Java to Google, which will allow Google to use Java in developing programs for mobile devices using the Android operating system. However, the two companies never reached an agreement. After negotiations failed, Google created its own Java-based programming platform, and contained a mixture of 37 copied Java packages and a new package developed by Google.
First trial
In 2010, Oracle sued Google for copyright infringement for the use of 37 Java packages. The case was handled in the US District Court for the Northern District of California and was assigned to Judge William H. Alsup (who taught himself how to encode computers). In the lawsuit, Oracle sought between $ 1.4 billion and $ 6.1 billion. In June 2011 the judge had to force Google through a court order to announce details about Oracle's claim for damages.
At the end of the first jury trial (legal dispute will ultimately lead to another trial) the arguments made by Oracle's lawyers focus on a Java function called "rangeCheck."
"The argument centers on a function called rangeCheck: Of all the lines of code that Oracle has tested - a total of 15 million - this is the only one 'literally' copied, each keystroke, a perfect duplicate." - The Verge , 10/19/17
Although Google claims to copy the package, Judge Alsup discovers that there is no Java package protected by copyright protection, and therefore Google does not infringe.
First submission
After this case is completed, Oracle appealed to the US Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit (750 F.3d 1339 (2014)). On May 9, 2014, the appeal court partially reversed Judge Alsup's decision, discovering that the Java API is copyrighted. API stands for "application programming interface" and how various programs or computer applications communicate with each other. However, the appeals court also opens the possibility that Google may have a "fair use" defense.
Petition of the Supreme Court
On October 6, 2014, Google filed a petition to appeal to the US Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court rejected the petition.
Second test
This case was later returned to the US District Court for another trial of Google's fair use defense. Oracle seeks $ 9 billion damage. In May 2016, a court juror found that the use of Java APIs by Google was considered fair use.
Second appeal
In February 2017, Oracle filed another appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. This time requested a new trial because the District Court "repeatedly damaged Oracle's case", which, according to Oracle, caused the jury to make the wrong decision. According to ZDNet, "For example, it [Oracle] says the court wrongly bought Google's claim that Android is limited to smartphones while Java is for PCs, while Oracle believes that Java and Android both compete as platforms for smart TVs, cars and wearable devices. "
Termination of OpenSolaris
On August 13, 2010, an internal Oracle memo leaked onto the internet that mentioned plans to end the project and the OpenSolaris operating system community. With Oracle planning to develop Solaris only in closed source mode, OpenSolaris developers move to the Illumos and OpenIndiana projects, among others.
Termination of OpenSSO
When Oracle completed the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in February 2010, they announced that OpenSSO would no longer be their strategic product. Shortly thereafter, OpenSSO is reserved to OpenAM. and will continue to be developed and supported by ForgeRock.
Mark Hurd as President
On September 6, 2010, Oracle announced that former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd would succeed Charles Phillips, who resigned as Oracle Co-President. In an official statement made by Larry Ellison, Phillips had previously expressed his desire to transition out of the company. Ellison has asked Phillips to remain through Sun Microsystems Inc.'s integration. In a separate statement on the transition, Ellison said "Mark does a brilliant job at HP and I hope he will do better at Oracle.No executives in the IT world with more relevant experiences than Mark."
On September 7, 2010, HP announced a civil lawsuit against Mark Hurd "to protect HP's trade secrets", in response to Oracle's recruit Hurd. On September 20, Oracle and HP publish a joint press release announcing a lawsuit resolution on secret terms and reaffirming the commitment to long-term strategic partnership between companies.
OpenOffice.org Problems
A number of OpenOffice.org developers have established The Document Foundation and have received support by Google, Novell, Red Hat, and Canonical, as well as some others, but can not ask Oracle to donate the OpenOffice.org brand, causing a fork in the development of OpenOffice.org with the foundation now developing and promoting LibreOffice. Oracle has expressed no interest in sponsoring new projects and has asked developers of OpenOffice.org who have initiated projects to resign from the company due to "conflict of interest." On November 1, 2010, 33 of the OpenOffice.org developers gave their resignation letters. On June 1, 2011, Oracle donated OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation.
HP and Oracle's lawsuit
On June 15, 2011, HP filed a lawsuit in the California High Court in Santa Clara claiming that Oracle has violated its agreement to support the Itanium microprocessor used in HP's high-end enterprise servers. Oracle called the lawsuit a "misuse of the judicial process" and said that if SAP Leo Apotheker would be hired as the new CEO of HP, any support for HP Itanium servers would not be implied.
On August 1, 2012, a California judge said in a tentative ruling that Oracle should continue porting its software at no cost until HP stops selling Itanium-based servers. HP was awarded $ 3 billion in damages against Oracle in 2016. HP believes that Oracle cancels support for damaging HP Itanium server brands. Oracle has announced it will appeal both the decision and the damage.
Practice foreign corruption
On August 31, 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported that Oracle is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for paying bribes to government officials to win business in Africa, as opposed to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
GSA business offer ban
On April 20, 2012, the US General Services Administration banned Oracle from the most popular portal to bid on GSA contracts for undisclosed reasons. Oracle has previously used this portal for about four hundred million dollars per year in revenue. Oracle previously resolved the lawsuit filed under the False Claim Act, which accused the US government of overbilling between 1998 and 2006. The 2011 settlement forced Oracle to pay $ 199.5 million to the Public Service Administration.
People
- Mark Hurd: (CEO since September 2014), previously co-president (since 2010). In 2007, Mark Hurd was No. 1. 16 on Fortune ' list of the 25 Most Influential People in Business.
- Safra Catz: (CEO since September 2014), formerly co-president (since 2004) and CFO. In 2016, he was ranked 10th on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list.
- Larry Ellison: chief executive and CTO (since September 2014), one of the company's founders, formerly CEO (1977-2014), previously chairman (1990-2004). He owns 25% of the company.
- Jeff Henley: vice chairman (since September 2014), chairman (2004-2014). Previous CFO of Oracle (1991-2004).
- Charles Phillips: previous co-presidents and directors from 2003 to 2010, replaced by Mark Hurd.
- Ed Oates: one of the company's founders. Retired from Oracle in 1996.
- Bob Miner: one of the company's founders and Oracle Database architect's deputy. Leading product design and development for Oracle Database from 1977 to 1992. Splitting technology group in Oracle in 1992. Board member of Oracle until 1993.
- Umang Gupta: former vice president and general manager (1981-1984). Write the first business plan for the company. Current Chairman and CEO of Keynote Systems, Inc.
- Bruce Scott: One of the first employees (number 4) at Oracle (then Software Development Laboratories), Scott served as co-author and co-architect of Oracle V1, V2, and V3 until leaving Oracle in 1984.
- Adam Edelman (born 1991), Israeli-born National Champion four times in a skeleton show, and Olympian Israel
Office
Oracle Corporation has overall headquarters on the San Francisco Peninsula in the Redwood Shores area of ​​Redwood City, adjacent to Belmont and near San Carlos Airport (IATA airport code: SQL).
Oracle HQ stood at the former site of Marine World Africa USA, which moved from Redwood Shores to Vallejo in 1986. Oracle Corporation initially rented two buildings on the site, moving the finance and administration department from the company's former headquarters in Davis Drive, Belmont, California. Finally, Oracle bought the complex and built four more major buildings.
The distinctive Oracle Parkway buildings, nicknamed the Emerald City, serve as a set for futuristic corporate fictitious headquarters "NorthAm Robotics" in the Robin Williams film Bicentennial Man (1999). The college represents Cyberdyne Systems headquarters in the movie Terminator Genisys (2015).
Company structure
Oracle Corporation operates in various markets and has acquired several companies that previously function independently. In some cases, this provides a starting point for a global business unit (GBU) that targets specific vertical markets. Oracle Corporation GBU includes:
- Communications
- Construction and engineering - formerly GBU Primavera
- Financial services
- Health sciences
- Hospitality
- Retail
- Utilities
Sponsors
On October 20, 2006, Golden State Warriors and Oracle Corporation announced a 10-year agreement in which the Oakland Arena will be known as the Oracle Arena.
Sailing team Larry Ellison competes as Team Oracle USA. The team has won the American Cup twice, in 2010 (as BMW Oracle Racing) and in 2013.
Sean Tucker "Challenger II" stunt biplane performs frequently in air performances around the US.
See also
- List of acquisitions by Oracle
- Oracle Applications
- Oracle Certification Program
- Oracle Clinical
- Oracle OpenWorld (cf MIX Conference)
- Oracle Technology Network
- Oracle Linux
- Oracle Users Group
- Close Oregon
References
Further reading
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Mendelsohn, Andrew. "The Oracle Story: 1984-2001". IEEE History of Computational History . 35 (2): 10-23. doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2012.56.
External links
- Official website
- The Oracle Corporation companies are grouped in OpenCorporates
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