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MySQL Central @ OpenWorld includes over 50 conference sessions, tutorials, Birds-of-a Feather sessions and Hands-on Labs. Our "Focus On" page provides you with an overview of the sessions and their schedule. Add them to you agenda now using My Schedule!

Additionally, you’re invited to join the MySQL Community reception on Tuesday, October 27 at 7.00 pm to celebrate a year of MySQL anniversaries! Oracle OpenWorld attendees, members of local MySQL user groups, MySQL users in the Bay Area - you're all invited to Oracle’s MySQL Community Reception! RSVP today for a fun night.

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In June of 2003, PeopleSoft management announced a merger with J.D. Edwards. Within hours of the announcement, Oracle had launched a hostile takeover attempt of PeopleSoft. Oracle's bid raised enormously difficult questions for the PeopleSoft board, questions about whether PeopleSoft products would continue to be supported and customers became reluctant to buy PeopleSoft software. Managers were therefore faced with a decision about how to respond to the bid and the uncertainty it created. To regain customer and analyst confidence, PeopleSoft's board considered adopting a Customer Assurance Program in which customers would receive a cash payment in the event of a takeover. This promise of a cash payment would not only encourage customers to invest in PeopleSoft products, but also created a liability that might be large enough to derail Oracle's takeover attempt altogether. The board therefore had to consider the implications of a Customer Assurance Program for the welfare of the firm, its customers, and its duties to shareholders faced with a tender offer.

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Oracle's founder and longtime CEO

Oracle's founder and longtime CEO is infamous for his lavish lifestyle and business acumen. Here are 30 surprising facts you may not know about Larry Ellison:

1. Ellison is currently the 5th richest person on the planet, with a net worth of $54.3 billion (at time of writing).
2. Born to an unwed mother in New York City, he contracted pneumonia at just nine months of age and was given to his great-aunt and uncle for adoption. He wouldn't see his biological mother again for almost five decades.
3. Unlike Bill Gates, Larry Ellison was not exposed to computers in his childhood and didn't have that inherent advantage early in life. He was first introduced to computer design during his second attempt at university.
4. Ellison studied at both the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chicago, but dropped out of school for good to move to California in 1966. He'd spent a summer there between his two stints in university, after the death of his adoptive mother.
5. Prior to the loss of his mother, Ellison had been named science student of the year at University of Illinois.
6. The first company Ellison co-founded launched in 1977. It was called Software Development Laboratories and his investment was $1200. He and his partners won a two-year contract to build a database for the CIA; they called the project "Oracle." Their company would become Relational Software Inc. in 1979, and change names one more time, in 1982, to become Oracle Systems Corporation.
7. Ellison almost lost everything when Oracle nearly went bankrupt in the early 1990s.
8. An adventurer and adrenaline junkie at heart, Ellison suffered numerous injuries as a result of his participation in extreme sports, including mountain biking and body surfing.
9. He was inducted into the Academy of Achievement (the museum of living history in Washington) in 1997.
10. The Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Centre opened in 1998 and is so named after he donated $5 million to seed the Lawrence J. Ellison Musculo-Skeletal Research Centre. Ellison has shattered his elbow in a high-speed cycling crash and felt inspired to kick off his philanthropic efforts in a huge way.
11. Ellison sued the City of San Jose in 2000 after he was cited for violating rules around night takeoffs and landings at the San Jose Mineta International Airport. He won.
12. As of 2002, Ellison had access to $1 billion in credit. When a judge unsealed court records in 2006 from a shareholder lawsuit, it was revealed that Ellison's accountant had chastised him for repeatedly pushing his credit limit to the max with extravagant purchases including mansions, yachts, and luxury cars.
13. A 2003 book authored by investigative journalist Mike Wilson gets right to the heart of Ellison's legendary reputation. It's titled, The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison*: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison.
14. Ellison was responsible for the priciest real estate deal in US history when he purchased five lots on Malibu's Carbon Beach in 2004 for $65 million. He held the title only briefly; Ron Perlman unloaded his Florida estate for $70 million a few months later.
15. Between 2004 and 2007, Ellison led Oracle through an acquisition-based growth that strategy that saw the company drop $25 billion on other software brands, large and small.
16. By 2006, Forbes had declared him the richest Californian.
17. That same year, Ellison made waves by reneging on his pledge to donate $115 million to Harvard University after the departure of the President of the school.
18. From 2007 to 2009, Ellison raked in over $50 million per year (sometimes well over). In August 2009, his base salary was reduced from $1 million to one dollar.
19. Ellison owned one of the largest yachts on the planet until 2010, when he sold his rights to the Rising Sun to David Geffen.
20. He's a licensed pilot and owns two military jets.
21. Ellison has been married and divorced four times. His second wife married him prior to the founding of Oracle and when they divorced shortly after, signed off on any rights to the company for $500.
22. When Ellison married his fourth wife, romance novelist Melanie Craft, his good friend Steve Jobs served as wedding photographer.
23. Ellison had a cameo (alongside fellow tech guru Elon Musk) in the 2010 movie Iron Man 2.
24. In 2011, Ellison hired a "tree lawyer" (yes, those actually exist) and took his neighbors to court for blocking his views with three redwoods and an acacia tree. They eventually settled.
25. He's one of the 128 (or so) billionaires to sign The Giving Pledge, committing at least half of his fortune to philanthropic causes.
26. Ellison has long been passionate about yachting and in 2013, his Oracle Team USA defeated the Emirates Team New Zealand to win the America's Cup.
27. He owns 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai.
28. Ellison stepped down as CEO of Oracle in 2014, entrusting the company he built from the ground up to two trusted colleagues. He now serves as Executive Chairman and CTO.
29. He's tried and failed to buy two NBA teams, the New Orleans Hornets and Golden Gate Warriors. Though he doesn't own a team, he still has Oracle Stadium.
30. Ellison reportedly owns hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate around the world, including a Rhode Island estate and historic gardens in Kyoto.x

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Larry Ellison is the founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, which earned him a spot as fifth wealthiest person in the world in 2014.

Background and Early Career

Larry Ellison was born in the Bronx, New York, on August 17, 1944, to single mother Florence Spellman. When he was nine months old, Ellison came down with pneumonia, and his mother sent him to Chicago to be raised by her aunt and uncle, Lillian and Louis Ellison, who adopted the baby.

After high school, Ellison enrolled at the University of Illinois, Champaign (1962), where he was named science student of the year. During his second year, his adopted mother died, and Ellison dropped out of college. The following fall, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, but he dropped out after only one semester.

Ellison then packed his bags for Berkeley, California, with little money, and for the next decade he moved from job to job at such places as Wells Fargo and Amdahl Corporation. Between college and his various jobs, Ellison had picked up basic computer skills, and he was finally able to put them to use as a programmer at Amdahl, where he worked on the first IBM-compatible mainframe system.

In 1977, Ellison and two of his Amdahl colleagues founded Software Development Labs and soon had a contract to build a database-management system—which they called Oracle—for the CIA. The company had fewer than 10 employees and revenue of less than $1 million per year, but in 1981, IBM signed on to use Oracle, and the company’s sales doubled every year for the next seven years. Ellison soon renamed the company after its best-selling product.

Oracle Corporation

In 1986, Oracle Corporation held its IPO (initial public offering), but some accounting issues helped wipe out the majority of the company’s market capitalization and Oracle teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. After a management shakeup and a product-cycle refresh, however, Oracle’s new products took the industry by storm, and by 1992 the company was the leader in the database-management realm.

Success continued, and as Ellison was Oracle’s largest shareholder, he became one of the wealthiest people in the world. Ellison set his sights on growth through acquisitions, and over the next several years he gobbled up several companies, including PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and Sun Microsystems, all of which helped Oracle reach a market cap of roughly $185 billion with some 130,000 employees by 2014.

America's Cup

When he’s not busy bolstering his software empire, Ellison races yachts (his yacht Rising Sun is over 450 feet long—one of the largest privately owned vessels in the world), and in 2010 he joined the BMW Oracle racing team and won the prestigious America’s Cup. The victory brought the cup to the United States for the first time in 15 years, a win the team repeated in 2013.

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Take a moment to read on why Bennett v. Southern Pacific came to life and how it died on the Court House steps.  

The endless connections of Pete Bennett once again indicted for mail and wire fraud where Theranos investors get the help of the United States Attorney and Securities and Exchange Commission but when Bennett identifies losses in the tens of thousands the FBI agent said it wasn't big enough to go after.

The Fall of Theranos intertwined Fremont Group and Oracle
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Admittedly the Theranos case wasn't high priority until several names emerged.  It's quite funny as the accusers who gained the investigative prowess of the Securities and Exchange Commission are themselves a target of the Department of Justice. 

Mr. Balwani is a connection from the 1990s where he took control of Commerce One.  The founders were Tom Gonzales Sr. and Tom Gonzales Jr., the last time I saw them they were at Mt. Diablo National Bank preparing accounts.  We had short conversation as they were busy.  Tom jr. died a few weeks later from bladder cancer but that was from the grapevine.   There are other details about what happened that I cannot verify as it's more akin to back room chatter.

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By 2014 five relatives connected to immediate family of Pete Bennett found murdered in Springville UT.  Then over the course of 2014 numerous local deaths.  

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Oracle Corporation

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Oracle Corporation

Headquarters in Redwood Shores, California
Type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: ORCL S&P 100 Component S&P 500 Component
ISIN	US68389X1054
Industry	Enterprise software Cloud computing
Founded	June 16, 1977; 41 years ago Santa Clara, California, U.S.[1]
Founders	Larry Ellison Bob Miner Ed Oates[2]
Headquarters	Redwood Shores, California , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Larry Ellison (Executive Chairman & CTO) Jeff Henley (Vice Chairman) Mark Hurd (CEO) Safra Catz (CEO) Judith Sim (CMO)
Products	Oracle Applications, Oracle Database, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Fusion Middleware, servers, workstations, storage (See Oracle products)
Services	Business software, cloud computing, applications, business consulting, SaaS, IaaS, and DaaS
Revenue	US$39.83 billion (2018)[3]
Operating income	US$13.67 billion (2018)[3]
Net income	US$3.82 billion (2018)[3]
Total assets	US$137.26 billion (2018)[3]
Total equity	US$45.72 billion (2018)[3]
Number of employees	137,000 (2018)[4]
Subsidiaries	List of Oracle subsidiaries
Website	www.oracle.com

Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. The company specializes primarily in developing and marketing database software and technology, cloud engineered systems, and enterprise software products — particularly its own brands of database management systems. In 2018, Oracle was the third-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft and Alphabet.^[5]

The company also develops and builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, customer relationship management (CRM) software, and supply chain management(SCM) software.

Contents

• 1History
  • 1.1Technology timeline
• 2Finances
• 3Products and services
  • 3.1Software
    • 3.1.1Databases
    • 3.1.2Middleware
      • 3.1.2.1Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
      • 3.1.2.2Oracle Beehive
    • 3.1.3Applications
      • 3.1.3.1Third-party applications
    • 3.1.4Enterprise management
    • 3.1.5Development software
    • 3.1.6File systems
    • 3.1.7Operating systems
  • 3.2Hardware
  • 3.3Services
    • 3.3.1Oracle Cloud
    • 3.3.2Other services
• 4Marketing
  • 4.1Sales practices
  • 4.2Competition
    • 4.2.1Oracle and SAP
  • 4.3Slogans
  • 4.4Media
• 5Controversies
  • 5.1Trashgate
  • 5.2"Can't break it, can't break in"
  • 5.3Relationship with John Ashcroft
  • 5.4Expeditionary Combat Support System
  • 5.5Cover Oregon Healthcare Exchange
• 6Events
  • 6.1Acquisition of Sun Microsystems
  • 6.2Justice Department lawsuit
  • 6.3Lawsuit against Google
    • 6.3.1Background
    • 6.3.2First trial
    • 6.3.3First appeal
    • 6.3.4Supreme Court petition
    • 6.3.5Second trial
    • 6.3.6Second appeal
  • 6.4Discontinuation of OpenSolaris
  • 6.5Discontinuation of OpenSSO
  • 6.6Mark Hurd as President
  • 6.7OpenOffice.org issue
  • 6.8HP and Oracle lawsuit
  • 6.9Foreign corrupt practices
  • 6.10GSA business bidding ban
• 7People
• 8Offices
• 9Corporate structures
• 10Sponsorships
• 11See also
• 12References
• 13Further reading
• 14External links

History[edit]

Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL).^[6] Ellison took inspiration^[7] 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."^[8] He heard about the IBM System R database from an article in the IBM Research Journal provided by Oates. Ellison wanted to make Oracle's product compatible with System R, but failed to do so as IBM kept the error codes for their DBMS a secret. SDL changed its name to Relational Software, Inc (RSI) in 1979,^[9] then again to Oracle Systems Corporation in 1982,^[10] to align itself more closely with its flagship product Oracle Database. At this stage Bob Miner served as the company's senior programmer. On March 12, 1986, the company had its initial public offering.^[11] In 1995, Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corporation,^[12] officially named Oracle, but sometimes referred to as Oracle Corporation, the name of the holding company.^[13] 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).

Technology timeline[edit]

• 1979: offers the first commercial SQL^{[citation needed]} RDBMS
• 1983: offers a VAX-mode database
• 1984: offers the first database with read-consistency
• 1986: offers a client-server DBMS
• 1987: introduces UNIX-based Oracle applications
• 1988: introduces PL/SQL.
• 1992: offers full applications implementation methodology
• 1995: offers the first 64-bit RDBMS
• 1996: moves towards an open standards-based, web-enabled architecture
• 1999: offers its first DBMS with XML support
• 2001: becomes the first to complete 3 terabyte TPC-H world record
• 2002: offers the first database to pass 15 industry standard security evaluations
• 2003: introduces what it calls "Enterprise Grid Computing" with Oracle10g
• 2005: releases its first free database, Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (XE)
• 2006: acquires Siebel Systems
• 2007: acquires Hyperion Solutions
• 2008: Smart scans in software improve query-response in HP Oracle Database Machine / Exadata storage
• 2010: acquires Sun Microsystems
• 2013: begins use of Oracle 12c which is capable of providing cloud services with Oracle Database
• 2014: acquires Micros Systems
• 2016: acquires NetSuite Inc.

Finances[edit]

Development since 2005^[14]

Year	Revenue in mil. US-$	Net Income in mil. US-$	Price per Share in US-$	Employees
2005	11,799	2,886	11.45
2006	14,380	3,381	13.60
2007	17,996	4,274	17.41
2008	22,430	5,521	17.86
2009	23,252	5,593	18.03
2010	26,820	6,135	23.02
2011	35,622	8,547	28.56
2012	37,121	9,981	27.37
2013	37,180	10,925	31.28	120,000
2014	38,275	10,955	37.72	122,000
2015	38,226	9,938	38.85	132,000
2016	37,047	8,901	37.94	136,000
2017	37,728	9,335	45.70	138,000

Oracle ranked No. 82 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.^[15] According to Bloomberg, Oracle's CEO-to-employee pay ratio is 1,205:1. The CEO's compensation in 2017 was $108,295,023. Meanwhile, the median employee compensation rate was $89,887.^[16]

Products and services[edit]

Oracle designs, manufactures, and sells both software and hardware products, as well as offering services that complement them (such as financing, training, consulting, and hosting services). Many of the products have been added to Oracle's portfolio through acquisitions.

Software[edit]

Oracle's E-delivery service (Oracle Software Delivery Cloud) provides generic downloadable Oracle software and documentation.^[17]

Databases[edit]

• Oracle Database

Main article: Oracle Database

• Release 10: In 2004, Oracle Corporation shipped release 10g (g standing for "grid") as the then latest version of Oracle Database. (Oracle Application Server10g using Java EE integrated with the server part of that version of the database, making it possible to deploy web-technology applications. The application server comprised the first middle-tier software designed for grid computing.^{[citation needed]} The interrelationship between Oracle 10g and Java allowed 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.)
• Release 11: Release 11g became the current Oracle Database version in 2007. Oracle Corporation released Oracle Database 11g Release 2 in September 2009. This version was available in four commercial editions—Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, and Personal Edition—and in one free edition—the Express Edition. The licensing of these editions shows various restrictions and obligations that were called complex by licensing expert Freirich Florea.^[18] The Enterprise Edition (DB EE), the most expensive of the Database Editions, has the fewest restrictions — but nevertheless has complex licensing. Oracle Corporation constrains the Standard Edition (DB SE) and Standard Edition One (SE1) with more licensing restrictions, in accordance with their lower price.
• Release 12: Release 12c (c standing for "cloud") became available on July 1, 2013.^[19]

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 OpenVMS platforms. Oracle acquired Rdb in 1994 from Digital Equipment Corporation. Oracle has since made many enhancements to this product and development continues as of 2008.
• TimesTen, which features 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, initially developed by MySQL AB
• Oracle NoSQL Database, a scalable, distributed key-value NoSQL database^[20]

Middleware[edit]

Main article: Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a family of middleware software products, including (for instance) application server, system integration, business process management(BPM), user interaction, content management, identity management and business intelligence (BI) products.

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search[edit]

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES), Oracle's enterprise-search offering, gives users the ability to search for content across multiple locations, including websites, XML files, file servers, content management systems, enterprise resource planning systems, customer relationship management systems, business intelligencesystems, and databases.

Oracle Beehive[edit]

Main article: Oracle Beehive

Released in 2008, the Oracle Beehive collaboration software provides team workspaces (including wikis, team calendaring and file sharing), email, calendar, instant messaging, and conferencing on a single platform. Customers can use Beehive as licensed software or as software as a service ("SaaS").^[21]

Applications[edit]

Oracle also sells a suite of business applications. The Oracle E-Business Suite includes software to perform various enterprise functions related to (for instance) financials, manufacturing, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human resource management. The Oracle Retail Suite^[22] covers the retail-industry vertical, providing merchandise management, price management, invoice matching, allocations, store operations management, warehouse management, demand forecasting, merchandise financial planning, assortment planning and category management.^{[citation needed]} Users can access these facilities through a browser interface over the Internet or via a corporate intranet.

Following a number of acquisitions beginning in 2003, especially in the area of applications, Oracle Corporation as of 2008 maintains a number of product lines:

• Oracle Fusion Applications

Main article: Oracle Fusion Applications

• Oracle Social Engagement and Monitoring (SEM) System – Oracle has developed a Social Engagement and Monitoring Cloud service that allows businesses to capture relevant brand conversation from global web and social channels to understand commentary on their products. The Social Engagement and Monitoring cloud provides the most effective and efficient responses across social and customer experience channels. SEM is able to route correct responses to the right team, member, or customer-experience channel to ensure the best customer service. The analysis helps vendors to understand what is important to customers. It identifies trends, spikes, and anomalies to make real-time course corrections. It also can identify brand advocates. The SEM cloud identifies customer intention and interests by analyzing the common ways customers talk about a product or a service.^{[23][need quotation to verify]}
• Oracle E-Business Suite

Main article: Oracle E-Business Suite

• PeopleSoft Enterprise

Main article: PeopleSoft

• Siebel

Main article: Siebel Systems

• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
• JD Edwards World

Main article: JD Edwards

• Merchandise Operations Management (Formerly Retek)
• Planning & Optimisation
• Store Operations (Formerly 360Commerce)

Main article: Oracle Retail

Development of applications commonly takes place in Java (using Oracle JDeveloper) or through PL/SQL (using, for example, Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports/BIPublisher).^{[citation needed]} Oracle Corporation has started^{[citation needed]} a drive toward "wizard"-driven environments with a view to enabling non-programmers to produce simple data-driven applications.

Third-party applications[edit]

Oracle Corporation works with "Oracle Certified Partners" to enhance its overall product marketing. The variety of applications from third-party vendors includes database applications for archiving, splitting and control, ERP and CRM systems, as well as more niche and focused products providing a range of commercial functions in areas like human resources, financial control and governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). Vendors include Hewlett-Packard, Creoal Consulting, UC4 Software,^[24] Motus,^[25] and Knoa Software.^[26]

Enterprise management[edit]

Main article: Oracle Enterprise Manager

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.^[27]

The Primavera products of Oracle's Construction & Engineering Global Business Unit (CEGBU) consist of project-management software.^[28]

Development software[edit]

Oracle Corporation's tools for developing applications include (among others):

• Oracle Designer - a CASE tool which integrates with Oracle Developer Suite
• Oracle Developer – which consists of Oracle Forms, Oracle Discoverer and Oracle Reports
• Oracle JDeveloper, a freeware IDE
• NetBeans, a Java-based software-development platform
• Oracle Application Express – also known as APEX; for web-oriented development
• Oracle SQL Developer, an integrated development environment for working with SQL-based databases
• Oracle SQL*Plus Worksheet, a component of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
• OEPE, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse
• Open Java Development Kit
• Oracle Developer Studio - a software generation system for the development of C, C++, Fortran, and Java software

Many external and third-party tools make the Oracle database administrator's tasks easier.^{[citation needed]}

File systems[edit]

• ZFS combines file-system and logical volume management functionality.
• BtrFS "B-tree File-System" is meant to be an improvement over the existing Linux ext4 filesystem, and offer features approaching those of ZFS.

Operating systems[edit]

Oracle Corporation develops and supports two operating systems: Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux.

Hardware[edit]

Oracle Exadata and Exalogic

• The Sun hardware range acquired by Oracle Corporation's purchase of Sun Microsystems
• Oracle SPARC T-series servers and M-series mainframes developed and released after Sun acquisition
• Engineered systems: pre-engineered and pre-assembled hardware/software bundles for enterprise use
  • Exadata Database Machine – hardware/software integrated storage^[29]
  • Exalogic Elastic Cloud – hardware/software integrated application server
  • Exalytics In-Memory Machine – hardware/software integrated in-memory analytics server^[30]
  • Oracle Database Appliance^[31]
  • Big Data Appliance – integrated map-reduce/big data solution^[32]
  • SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 – a general purpose engineered system^[33]

Services[edit]

Oracle Cloud[edit]

Oracle Cloud is a cloud computing service offered by Oracle Corporation providing servers, storage, network, applications and services through a global network of Oracle Corporation managed data centers. The company allows these services to be provisioned on demand over the Internet.^[34]

Oracle Cloud provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Data as a Service (DaaS). These services are used to build, deploy, integrate and extend applications in the cloud. This platform supports open standards (SQL, HTML5, REST, etc.) open-source solutions (Kubernetes, Hadoop, Kafka, etc.) and a variety of programming languages, databases, tools and frameworks including Oracle-specific, Open Source and third-party software and systems.^[35]

• Software as a Service (SaaS)^[36]
  • Enterprise applications: SCM, EPM, HCM, ERP and CX SaaS offerings^[37]
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)^[36]
  • Oracle has branded its Platform as a Service as Oracle Cloud Platform. Oracle Cloud Platform offerings include Data Management, Application Development, Integration, Content and Experience, Business Analytics, Management and Security.^[38][39]
  • Platform services on which to build and deploy applications or extend SaaS applications: database, Java application server, mobile, business analytics, integration, process, big data, Internet of Things, Node.js etc.^[40]
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)^[36]
  • Oracle has branded its Infrastructure as a Service as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offerings include the following services.^[41]
    • Compute Service
    • Storage Service
    • Network Service

On July 28, 2016 Oracle bought NetSuite, the very first cloud company, for $9.3 billion.^[42] On May 16, 2018 Oracle announced that it had acquired DataScience.com, a privately held cloud workspace platform for data science projects and workloads.^[43]

Other services[edit]

• Oracle Consulting – technical and business expert services
• Oracle Financing
• Oracle Support
  • Product support: Oracle Corporation identifies its customers and their support entitlements using CSI (Customer Support Identifier) codes.^[44] Registered customers can submit Service Requests (SRs)^[45]—usually via the web-accessible My Oracle Support^[46] (MOS),^[47] a re-incarnation of Oracle Metalink^[48] with web access administered by a site Customer User Administrator (CUA).^[49]
  • Critical Patch Updates: since 2005 Oracle Corporation has grouped collections of patches and security fixes for its products each quarter into a "Critical Patch Update" (CPU), released each January, April, July and October.^[50]
  • Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM, previously Customer Configuration repository or CCR) gathers and uploads details of the configuration of Oracle software.^[51]
  • Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR) automatically creates Service Requests for specific hardware faults on qualified Oracle server, storage, Oracle Exadata, and Oracle Exalogic products.^[52]
  • My Oracle Support Community (MOSC)^[53]
• Oracle University (training in Oracle products)^[54]
  • Oracle Certification Program
• NetSuite Social Impact program assists nonprofits with moving operations to the cloud. In October 2018, Oracle announced the expansion of the program to include product donation, pro bono expansion and online community building.^[55]

Marketing[edit]

Sales practices[edit]

In 1990, Oracle laid off 10% (about 400 people) of its work force because of accounting errors.^[56] This crisis 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.^[57] This became a problem when the future sales subsequently failed to materialize. Oracle eventually had to restate its earnings twice, and also settled (out of court) class-action lawsuits arising from its having overstated its earnings. Ellison stated in 1992 that Oracle had made "an incredible business mistake."^[56]

Competition[edit]

In 1994, Informix overtook Sybase and became Oracle's most important rival. The intense war between Informix CEO Phil White and Ellison made front-page news in Silicon Valley for three years. Informix claimed that Oracle had hired away Informix engineers to disclose important trade secrets about an upcoming product. Informix finally dropped its lawsuit against Oracle in 1997.^[58] 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 gave 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 with overtaking Ellison.

Once it had overcome Informix and Sybase, Oracle Corporation enjoyed years of dominance in the database market until 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 competes for new database licenses on UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems primarily against IBM's DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server. IBM's 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 market share estimated at up to 44.6% in 2005 by some sources.^[59] Oracle Corporation's main competitors in the database arena remain IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server, and to a lesser extent Sybase and Teradata,^[59] with open source databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL also having a significant^[60] share of the market. EnterpriseDB, based on PostgreSQL, has recently made inroads^[61] by proclaiming that its product delivers Oracle compatibility features^{[clarification needed]} at a much lower price-point.

In the software-applications market, Oracle Corporation primarily^{[citation needed]} competes against SAP. On March 22, 2007 Oracle sued SAP, accusing them of fraud and unfair competition.^{[62][citation needed]}

In the market for business intelligence software, many other software companies—small and large—have successfully competed in quality with Oracle and SAP products. Business intelligence vendors can be categorized into the "big four" consolidated BI firms such as Oracle, who has entered BI market through a recent trend of acquisitions (including Hyperion Solutions), and the independent "pure play" vendors such as MicroStrategy, Actuate, and SAS.^[63]

Oracle Financials was ranked in the Top 20 Most Popular Accounting Software Infographic by Capterra in 2014, beating out SAP and a number of their other competitors.^[64]

Oracle and SAP[edit]

From 1988, Oracle Corporation and the German company SAP AG had a decade-long history of cooperation, beginning with the integration of SAP's R/3 enterprise application suite with Oracle's relational database products. Despite the SAP partnership with Microsoft, and the increasing integration of SAP applications with Microsoft products (such as Microsoft SQL Server, a competitor to Oracle Database), Oracle and SAP continue their cooperation. According to Oracle Corporation, the majority of SAP's customers use Oracle databases.^[65]

In 2004, Oracle began to increase its interest in the enterprise-applications market (in 1989, Oracle had already released Oracle Financials). A series of acquisitions by Oracle Corporation began, most notably with those of PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and Hyperion.

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. SAP would offer those customers special discounts on the licenses for its enterprise applications.

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"),^[66] and also by providing special discounts on licenses and services to SAP customers who chose Oracle Corporation products.

Currently Oracle and SAP (the latter through its recently acquired subsidiary TomorrowNow) compete in the third-party enterprise software maintenance and support market. On March 22, 2007, Oracle filed a lawsuit against SAP. In Oracle Corporation v. SAP AG Oracle 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.^[67] 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.^{[68][citation needed]}

On July 3, 2007, SAP admitted that TomorrowNow employees had made "inappropriate downloads" from the Oracle support website. 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.^[69]

On November 23, 2010, a U.S. district court jury in Oakland, California found that SAP AG must pay Oracle Corp $1.3 billion for copyright infringement, awarding damages that could be the largest-ever for copyright infringement. While admitting liability, SAP estimated the damages at no more than $40 million, while Oracle claimed that they are at least $1.65 billion. The awarded amount is one of the 10 or 20 largest jury verdicts in U.S. legal history. SAP said they were disappointed by the verdict and might appeal.^[70] On September 1, 2011, a federal judge overturned the judgment and offered a reduced amount or a new trial, calling Oracle's original award "grossly" excessive.^[71] Oracle chose a new trial.

On August 3, 2012, SAP and Oracle agreed on a judgment for $306 million in damages, pending approval from the U.S. district court judge, “to save time and expense of [a] new trial". After the accord has been approved, Oracle can ask a federal appeals court to reinstate the earlier jury verdict. In addition to the damages payment, SAP has already paid Oracle $120 million for its legal fees.^[72]

Slogans[edit]

• "Information driven"^[73][74]
• For the Oracle Database: "Can't break it, can't break in"^[75] and "Unbreakable"^[76]
• Enabling the Information Age^[77]
• Enabling the Information Age Through Network Computing"^[78][79][80]
• As of 2008: "The Information Company"^[81]
• As of 2010: "Software. Hardware. Complete."^[82]
• As of late 2010: "Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together"^[83][84]
• As of mid 2015: "Integrated Cloud Applications and Platform Services"^[85]

Media[edit]

Oracle Corporation produces and distributes the "Oracle ClearView" series of videos as part of its marketing mix.^[86]

Controversies[edit]

Trashgate[edit]

In 2000, Oracle attracted attention from the computer industry and the press after hiring private investigators to dig through the trash of organizations involved in an antitrust trial involving Microsoft.^[87] 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. When asked how he would 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."^[88]

"Can't break it, can't break in"[edit]

In 2002, Oracle Corporation marketed many of its products using the slogan "Can't break it, can't break in", or "Unbreakable".^[89] This signified a demand on information security. Oracle Corporation also stressed the reliability of networked databases and network access to databases as major selling points.

However, two weeks after its introduction, David Litchfield, Alexander Kornbrust, Cesar Cerrudo and others demonstrated a whole suite of successful attacks against Oracle products.^[90][91] Oracle Corporation's chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson said that, rather than representing a literal claim of Oracle's products' impregnability, she saw the campaign in the context of fourteen independent security evaluations^[92] that Oracle Corporation's database server had passed.

Relationship with John Ashcroft[edit]

In 2004, then-United States Attorney General John Ashcroft sued Oracle Corporation to prevent it from acquiring a multibillion-dollar intelligence contract. After Ashcroft's resignation from government, he founded a lobbying firm, The Ashcroft Group, which Oracle hired in 2005. With the group's help, Oracle went on to acquire the contract.^[93]

Expeditionary Combat Support System[edit]

Computer Sciences Corporation reportedly spent a billion dollars developing a computer system for the United States Air Force that yielded no significant capability, because, according to an Air Force source, the Oracle software on which the system was based could not be adapted to meet the specialized performance criteria.^[94]

Cover Oregon Healthcare Exchange[edit]

Oracle Corporation was awarded a contract by the State of Oregon's Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to develop Cover Oregon, the state's healthcare exchange website, as part of the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. When the site tried to go live on October 1, 2013, it failed, and registrations had to be taken using paper applications until the site could be fixed.

On April 25, 2014, the State of Oregon voted to discontinue Cover Oregon and instead use the federal exchange to enroll Oregon residents.^[95] The cost of switching to the federal portal was estimated at $5 million, whereas fixing Cover Oregon would have required another $78 million.

Oracle president Safra Catz responded to Cover Oregon and the OHA in a letter claiming that the site's problems were due to OHA mismanagement, specifically that a third-party systems integrator was not hired to manage the complex project.^[96][97]

In August 2014, Oracle Corporation sued Cover Oregon for breach of contract,^[98] and then later that month the state of Oregon sued Oracle Corporation, in a civil complaint for breach of contract, fraud, filing false claims and "racketeering".^[99] In September 2016, the two sides reached a settlement valued at over $100 million to the state, and a six-year agreement for Oracle to continue modernizing state software and IT.^[100]

Events[edit]

Acquisition of Sun Microsystems[edit]

Main article: Sun acquisition by Oracle

On January 27, 2010, Oracle announced it had completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems—valued at more than $7 billion—a move that transformed Oracle from solely a software company to a manufacturer of both software and hardware. The acquisition was delayed for several months by the EU Commission because of concerns about MySQL, but was unconditionally approved in the end.^[101] This acquisition was important to some in the open source community and also to some other companies, as they feared Oracle might end Sun's traditional support of open source projects.^{[102][103][104][105]} Since the acquisition, Oracle has discontinued OpenSolaris and StarOffice, and sued Google over their newly acquired Java patents from Sun.^[106][107] In September 2011, U.S. State Department Embassy cables were leaked^[108] to WikiLeaks. One cable revealed that the U.S. pressured the E.U. to allow Oracle to acquire Sun.^[109]

Justice Department lawsuit[edit]

On July 29, 2010, the United States Department of Justice filed suit against Oracle Corporation alleging fraud. The lawsuit argues that the government received deals inferior to those Oracle gave to its commercial clients. The DoJ added its heft to an already existing whistleblower lawsuit filed by Paul Frascella, who was once senior director of contract services at Oracle.^[110] It was settled in May 2012^[111]

Lawsuit against Google[edit]

Main article: Oracle v. Google

Background[edit]

Oracle, the plaintiff, bought the Java computer programing language when it acquired Sun Microsystems in January 2010.^[112] The Java software includes sets of pre-developed software code in order to accomplish common tasks consistently among programs and apps. The pre-developed code is organized into separate "packages" which each contain a set of "classes". Each class contains numerous methods, which instruct a program or app to do a certain task. Software developers "became accustomed to using Java’s designations at the package, class, and method level."^[113]

Oracle and Google (the defendant) tried to negotiate an agreement for Oracle to license Java to Google, which would have allowed 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 programming platform, which was based on Java, and contained a mix of 37 copied Java packages and new packages developed by Google.^[113]

First trial[edit]

In 2010, Oracle sued Google for copyright infringement for the use of the 37 Java packages.^[113][112] The case was handled in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and assigned to Judge William H. Alsup (who taught himself how to code computers^[114]).^[112] In the lawsuit, Oracle sought between $1.4 billion and $6.1 billion.^[112] In June 2011 the judge had to force Google through a judicial order to make public the details about Oracle's claim for damages.^[112]

By the end of the first jury trial (the legal dispute would eventually go on to another trial) the arguments made by Oracle's attorneys focused on a Java function called "rangeCheck."

"The argument centered on a function called rangeCheck. Of all the lines of code that Oracle had tested—15 million in total—these were the only ones that were 'literally' copied. Every keystroke, a perfect duplicate." – The Verge, 10/19/17^[114]

Although Google admitted to copying the packages, Judge Alsup found that none of the Java packages were covered under copyright protection, and therefore Google did not infringe.^[113]

First appeal[edit]

After the case was over, Oracle appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (750 F.3d 1339 (2014)).^[113][115] On May 9, 2014, the appeals court partially reversed Judge Alsup's decision, finding that Java APIs are copyrightable. API stands for "application programming interface" and are how different computer programs or apps communicate with each other. However, the appeals court also left open the possibility that Google might have a "fair use" defense.^[115]

Supreme Court petition[edit]

On October 6, 2014, Google filed a petition to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court denied the petition.^[115]

Second trial[edit]

The case was then returned to the U.S. District Court for another trial about Google's fair use defense.^[115] Oracle sought $9 billion in damages.^[116] In May 2016, the trial jury found that Google's use of Java's APIs was considered fair use.^[115]

Second appeal[edit]

In February 2017, Oracle filed another appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.^[115] This time it was asking for a new trial because the District Court "repeatedly undermined Oracle's case", which Oracle argued led the jury to make the wrong decision. According to ZDNet, "For example, it [Oracle] says the court wrongly bought Google's claim that Android was limited to smartphones while Java was for PCs, whereas Oracle contends that Java and Android both compete as platforms for smart TVs, cars, and wearables."^[116]

Discontinuation of OpenSolaris[edit]

On August 13, 2010, an internal Oracle memo leaked to the Internet cited plans for ending the OpenSolaris operating system project and community.^[117] With Oracle planning to develop Solaris only in a closed source fashion, OpenSolaris developers moved to the Illumos and OpenIndiana project, among others.^[118]

Discontinuation of OpenSSO[edit]

As Oracle completed their acquisition of Sun Microsystems in February 2010, they announced that OpenSSO would no longer be their strategic product.^[119] Shortly after, OpenSSO was forked to OpenAM.^[119] and will continue to be developed and supported by ForgeRock.

Mark Hurd as President[edit]

On September 6, 2010, Oracle announced that former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd was to replace 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 had asked Phillips to stay on through the integration of Sun Microsystems Inc.^[120] In a separate statement regarding the transition, Ellison said "Mark did a brilliant job at HP and I expect he'll do even better at Oracle. There is no executive in the IT world with more relevant experience than Mark."^[121]

On September 7, 2010, HP announced a civil lawsuit against Mark Hurd "to protect HP's trade secrets",^[122] in response to Oracle hiring Hurd. On September 20, Oracle and HP published a joint press release announcing the resolution of the lawsuit on confidential terms and reaffirming commitment to long-term strategic partnership between the companies.^[123]

OpenOffice.org issue[edit]

A number of OpenOffice.org developers formed The Document Foundation and received backing by Google, Novell, Red Hat, and Canonical, as well as some others, but were unable to get Oracle to donate the brand OpenOffice.org, causing a fork in the development of OpenOffice.org with the foundation now developing and promoting LibreOffice. Oracle expressed no interest in sponsoring the new project and asked the OpenOffice.org developers that started the project to resign from the company due to "conflicts of interest." On November 1, 2010, 33 of the OpenOffice.org developers gave their letters of resignation.^[124] On June 1, 2011, Oracle donated OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation.^[125]

HP and Oracle lawsuit[edit]

On June 15, 2011, HP filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court in Santa Clara, claiming that Oracle had breached an agreement to support the Itanium microprocessor used in HP's high-end enterprise servers.^[126] Oracle called the lawsuit "an abuse of the judicial process"^[127] and said that had it known SAP's Leo Apotheker was about to be hired as HP's new CEO, any support for HP's Itanium servers would not have been implied.^[128]

On August 1, 2012, a California judge said in a tentative ruling that Oracle must continue porting its software at no cost until HP discontinues its sales of Itanium-based servers.^[129][130] HP was awarded $3 billion in damages against Oracle in 2016.^[131] HP argued Oracle's canceling support damaged HP's Itanium server brand. Oracle has announced it will appeal both the decision and damages.

Foreign corrupt practices[edit]

On August 31, 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported that Oracle was being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for paying bribes to government officials in order to win business in Africa, in contravention of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).^[132]

GSA business bidding ban[edit]

On April 20, 2012 the US General Services Administration banned Oracle from the most popular portal for bidding on GSA contracts for undisclosed reasons. Oracle has previously used this portal for around four hundred million dollars a year in revenue.^[133] Oracle previously settled a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act, which accused the company of overbilling the US government between 1998 and 2006. The 2011 settlement forced Oracle to pay $199.5 million to the General Services Administration.^[134]

People[edit]

• Mark Hurd: (CEO since September 2014),^[135] previously co-president (since 2010). In 2007, Mark Hurd was ranked No. 16 on Fortune's list of the 25 Most Powerful People in Business.^[136]
• Safra Catz: (CEO since September 2014),^[135] previously co-president (since 2004) and CFO.^[137] In 2016, she was ranked 10th on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list.^[138]
• Larry Ellison: executive chairman and CTO (since September 2014), co-founder of the company, previously CEO (1977–2014),^[135] previously chairman (1990–2004). He owns 25% of the company.
• Jeff Henley: vice chairman (since September 2014), chairman (2004–2014). Previously CFO of Oracle (1991–2004).
• Charles Phillips: past co-president and director from 2003 to 2010, replaced by Mark Hurd.
• Ed Oates: co-founder of the company. Retired from Oracle in 1996.
• Bob Miner: co-founder of the company and co-architect of Oracle Database. Led product design and development for Oracle Database from 1977 to 1992. Spun off a technology group within Oracle in 1992. Oracle board member until 1993.
• Umang Gupta: former vice president and general manager (1981–1984). Wrote 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 the co-author and co-architect of Oracle V1, V2 and V3 until leaving Oracle in 1984.

Offices[edit]

Oracle Corporation has its 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 stands on the former site of Marine World Africa USA, which moved from Redwood Shores to Vallejo in 1986. Oracle Corporation originally leased two buildings on the site, moving its finance and administration departments from the corporation's former headquarters on Davis Drive, Belmont, California. Eventually, Oracle purchased the complex and constructed a further four main buildings.

The distinctive Oracle Parkway buildings, nicknamed the Emerald City,^[139] served as sets for the futuristic headquarters of the fictional company "NorthAm Robotics" in the Robin Williams film Bicentennial Man (1999).^[140] The campus represented the headquarters of Cyberdyne Systems in the movie Terminator Genisys (2015).^[141]

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