dsp look at the history of one of the world's most successful technology firms; Oracle. From humble beginnings, the company has developed over decades to become one of the biggest and best, and here we look at some of the milestones along the way.

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2. A HISTORY OF ORACLE
Oracle Corporation has come a long way to
become the multinational technology company
that it is today. Its rich history tracks its progress
through the development and marketing of
computer hardware systems, enterprise
software and Oracle itself, the world renowned
database technology.
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3. 1970s
• 1977 – Larry Ellison, Bob Miner & Ed
Oates create Software Development
Laboratories.
• 1978 – Oracle born, written in
assembly language running on PDP11 under RSX-11 in 129k of memory.
• 1979 – SDL rename themselves
Relational Systems Inc. (RSI) and
move to California. First commercial
relational database released.
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4. 1980s
• 1981 – Umang Gupta joins RSI and
creates the business plan.
• 1982 – RSI rename to Oracle Systems
Corp. to align themselves with their
main product.
• 1983 – Oracle database rewritten in C for
portability, release of Oracle v3.
• 1984 – Oracle v4 released, introducing
read consistency. Database software
ported to PC platform in November.
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5. 1980s
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1985 – Release of v5, making it one of the first
RDBMSs to operate in client-server mode.
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1986 – Oracle v5 MS-DOS released, and Oracle
goes public with revenue of $55 million.
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1987 – UNIX-based Oracle applications
introduced.
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1988 – Oracle v6 released with hot
backups, embedded PL/SQL procedural
engine within database and support for rowlevel locking.
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1989 – Relocation to HQ in Redwood
Shores, California with revenues reaching
$584 million.
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6. 1990s
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1990 – First ever loss in third
quarter, unfortunately leading to job
losses.
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1992 – Oracle 7 released with application
development tools, performance
enhancements, and many other features.
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1995 – Oracle becomes one of first large
software companies to report an Internet
Strategy.
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1996 – Released Web Browser as part of
Oracle PowerBrowser, moving towards
web-enabled architecture.
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7. 1990s
• 1997 – Release first version of
Discoverer, release Oracle v8 with
Internet Technology, support for
terabytes of data and SQL object
technology. Also announce loyalty to
Java platform.
• 1998 – Release Oracle Applications 2 and
integrate Java Virtual Machine with
Oracle Database. Oracle 8i and Oracle
Application Server 4.0 released onto
Linux.
• 1999 – Oracle Corporations offer first
DBMS with XML support.
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8. 2000s
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2000 – Oracle found the OracleMobile
subsidiary. Oracle 9i released and application
server released, and Oracle announce Internet
File System (IFS) – later named Oracle Content
Management.
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2001 – Announcement that Oracle saved $1
billion by using its own business apps, and
they become first to complete 3 terabyte TPC-H
world record.
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2002 – Offered the first database to pass 15
industry standard security evaluations.
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2003 – Introduced Enterprise Grid
Computing, to be released the following year.
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9. 2000s
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2004 – Agreement to acquire PeopleSoft for
approximately $10 billion.
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2005 – Reduction of combined workforce to
50,000, and announced purchase of Siebel for
around $5.8 billion.
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2006 – Acquire Portal Software, and and
announced Unbreakable Linux.
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2007 – File lawsuit against SAP for unfair
competition, eventually winning $1.3 billion in
2010. In the same year, Oracle buys Agile Software
Corporation.
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2008 – Announce purchase of BEA Systems for
$7.2 billion
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10. 2010s
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2010 – Acquired Sun Microsystems and launched
Enterprise Manager Operations Centre. Also
acquired Phase Forward.
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2011 – Fiscal Q11 revenues up 37% to $8.8
billion. Acquired a number of companies.
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2012 – Continued acquisitions, including
Collective Intellect and Involver.
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2013 – Announced new in-memory applications
for Oracle Hyperion, Oracle JD Edwards
Enterprise One, Oracle Siebel, and Oracle EBusiness Suite. Launched 12C, which is capable
of providing cloud services with Oracle
Database.
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