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Oracle Corporation

January 26, 2023

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas.[5] In 2020, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization.[6] The company sells database software and technology (particularly its own brands), cloud engineered systems, and enterprise software products, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, human capital management (HCM) software, customer relationship management (CRM) software (also known as customer experience), enterprise performance management (EPM) software, and supply chain management (SCM) software.[7]

Oracle Corporation
TypePublic
ISINUS68389X1054 
Industry
FoundedJune 16, 1977; 45 years ago (1977-06-16)
Santa Clara, California, U.S.[1]
Founders
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
Services
Revenue US$42.44 billion (2022)[3]
US$10.93 billion (2022)[3]
US$6.72 billion (2022)[3]
Total assets US$109.3 billion (2022)[3]
Total equity US$−6.22 billion (2022)[3]
OwnerLarry Ellison (42.4%)[4]
Number of employees
143,000 (May 2022)[3]
SubsidiariesList of Oracle subsidiaries
Websiteoracle.com
Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle

History

Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL).[2] Ellison took inspiration[8] 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."[9] 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,[10] then again to Oracle Systems Corporation in 1983,[11] to align itself more closely with its flagship product Oracle Database. The name also drew from the 1977 CIA project codename, which was also Oracle's first customer.[12] At this stage Bob Miner served as the company's senior programmer. On March 12, 1986, the company had its initial public offering.[13]

In 1995, Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corporation,[14] officially named Oracle, but is sometimes referred to as Oracle Corporation, the name of the holding company.[15] 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.[16]

In 2005, Oracle acquired PeopleSoft, an ERP company, and in 2006 Siebel, a CRM company. In 2008 Oracle acquired BEA Systems, an enterprise infrastructure software company and in 2010 it acquired Sun Microsystems, a computer hardware and software company (famous for its Java programming language).

In an effort to compete with Amazon Web Services and its products, Oracle announced in 2019 it was partnering with former rival Microsoft. The alliance called that Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure would be directly connected, allowing customers of each to store data on both cloud computing platforms and run software on either Oracle or Azure. Some saw this not only as an attempt to compete with Amazon but also Google and Salesforce, which acquired Looker and Tableau Software, respectively.[17]

On December 20, 2021, Oracle announced the acquisition of Cerner, a health information technology company.[18] The next day, on December 21, Oracle made public the acquisition of Federos, an AI and automation tools company for network performance.[19] The acquisition of Cerner was completed in June 2022 for $28.3 billion in cash.[20]

On August 23, 2022, Oracle was hit with a class action lawsuit, which alleges that Oracle has been operating a "surveillance machine" which tracks in real-time and records indefinitely the personal information of hundreds of millions of people.[21][22]

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 of the products have been added to Oracle's portfolio through acquisitions.

Software

Oracle's E-delivery service (Oracle Software Delivery Cloud) provides generic downloadable Oracle software and documentation.[23]

Databases

  • 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 Server 10g 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 was the first middle-tier software designed for grid computing. 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.)[citation needed]
    • Release 11: Release 11g became available 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.[24] 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.[25]

Oracle Corporation has acquired and developed the following additional database technologies:

Middleware

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

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 intelligence systems, and databases.

Oracle Beehive
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").[27]

Applications

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:

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][28] 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

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,[29] Motus,[30] and Knoa Software.[31]

Enterprise management

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.[32]

The Primavera products of Oracle's Construction & Engineering Global Business Unit (CEGBU) consist of project-management software.[33]

Development software

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

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

File systems

Operating systems

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

Hardware

 
Oracle Exadata and Exalogic

Services

Oracle Cloud

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.[39]

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, free and third-party software and systems.[40]

  • Software as a Service (SaaS)[41]
    • Enterprise applications: SCM, EPM, HCM, ERP and CX SaaS offerings[42]
    • Oracle sells a SaaS suite of Oracle Fusion Applications business applications.
    • On July 28, 2016, Oracle bought NetSuite, the first cloud company, for $9.3 billion.[43] NetSuite provides cloud ERP, CRM, supply chain and e-commerce software to small and medium-sized businesses. It is regarded as the first fully cloud company in the world and is an industry leader in its own right.
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS)[41]
    • Oracle has branded its Platform as a Service as Oracle Cloud Platform. Oracle Cloud Platform include Data Management, Application Development, Integration, Content and Experience, Business Analytics, Management and Security.[44][45]
    • 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.[46]
  • Data as a Service (DaaS)
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)[41]
    • Oracle has branded its Infrastructure as a Service as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offerings include the following services.[48]
      • Compute Service
      • Storage Service
      • Network Service

On May 16, 2018, Oracle announced that it had acquired DataScience.com, a privately held cloud workspace platform for data science projects and workloads.[49]

Other services

  • Oracle Consulting – technical and business expert services
  • Oracle Financing
  • Oracle Marketing & Support
    • Product support: Oracle Corporation identifies its customers and their support entitlements using CSI (Customer Support Identifier) codes.[50] Registered customers can submit Service Requests (SRs)[51]—usually via the web-accessible My Oracle Support[52] (MOS),[53] a re-incarnation of Oracle Metalink[54] with web access administered by a site Customer User Administrator (CUA).[55]
    • 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.[56]
    • Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM, previously Customer Configuration repository or CCR) gathers and uploads details of the configuration of Oracle software.[57]
    • Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR) automatically creates Service Requests for specific hardware faults on qualified Oracle server, storage, Oracle Exadata, and Oracle Exalogic products.[58]
    • My Oracle Support Community (MOSC)[59]
  • Oracle University (training in Oracle products)[60]
  • 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.[61]
  • As of September 13, 2020, Oracle acquired a trade deal with the ByteDance owned social video platform TikTok. This was the result of an executive order issued by U.S. president Donald Trump stating that TikTok must be sold to a U.S. company by September 15, 2020. The exact nature of the agreement is still unknown, but it implies that Oracle will become TikTok's technology partner and assume responsibility for the company's U.S. user data. The agreement is still pending approval from regulatory government bodies.[62][63]

Marketing

Sales practices

In 1990, Oracle laid off 10% (about 400 people) of its work force because of accounting errors.[64] 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.[65] 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".[64]

Competition

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.[66] 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, GNU, 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.[67] Oracle Corporation's main competitors in the database arena remain IBM Db2 and Microsoft SQL Server, and to a lesser extent Sybase and Teradata,[67] with free databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL also having a significant[68] share of the market. EnterpriseDB, based on PostgreSQL, has recently made inroads[69] 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[70][71] competes against SAP. On March 22, 2007, Oracle sued SAP, accusing them of fraud and unfair competition.[72]

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.[73]

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.[74]

Oracle and SAP

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.[75]

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 markets 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"),[76] 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.[77] 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.[78][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.[79]

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.[80] 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.[81] 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.[82]

Slogans

  • "Information driven"[83][84]
  • For the Oracle Database: "Can't break it, can't break in"[85] and "Unbreakable"[86]
  • Enabling the Information Age[87]
  • Enabling the Information Age Through Network Computing"[88][89][90]
  • As of 2008: "The Information Company"[91]
  • As of 2010: "Software. Hardware. Complete."[92]
  • As of late 2010: "Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together"[93][94]
  • As of mid 2015: "Integrated Cloud Applications and Platform Services"[95]

Media

Oracle Corporation produces and distributes the "Oracle ClearView" series of videos as part of its marketing mix.[96]

Finances

Development since 2005[97]
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 31.28 122,000
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
2018 39,831 3,825 47.28 137,000
2019 39,506 11,083 45.15 136,000
2020 39,068 10,135 52.98 135,000
2021 40,479 13,746 64.69 132,000
2022 42,440 6,717 87.21 143,000

Oracle was ranked No. 82 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.[98] According to Bloomberg, Oracle's CEO-to-employee pay ratio is 1,205:1. The CEO's compensation in 2017 was $108,295,023. Oracle is one of the approved employers of ACCA and the median employee compensation rate was $89,887.[99]

Carbon footprint

Oracle reported total carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions (direct + indirect) for the twelve months ending December 31, 2020 at 428 kilotonnes (+63/+17% year over year)[100] and plans to reduce emissions 26% by 2025 from a 2015 base year.[101]

Oracle's annual total CO2e emissions - market-based scope 1 + scope 2 (in kilotonnes)
Dec 2017 Dec 2018 Dec 2019 Dec 2020
418[102] 380[103] 366[104] 428[100]

Controversies

Trashgate

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 against Microsoft.[105] 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."[106]

"Can't break it, can't break in"

In 2002, Oracle Corporation marketed many of its products using the slogan "Can't break it, can't break in", or "Unbreakable".[107] 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.[108][109] 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[110] that Oracle Corporation's database server had passed.

Relationship with John Ashcroft

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.[111]

Expeditionary Combat Support System

Computer Sciences Corporation, as the prime contractor, reportedly spent a billion dollars developing the Expeditionary Combat Support System for the United States Air Force. It yielded no significant capability, because, according to an Air Force source, the prime contractor "was simply not up to the task of adapting" the Oracle software, on which the system was based, to meet the specialized performance criteria.[112]

Cover Oregon Healthcare Exchange

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.[113] 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.[114][115]

In August 2014, Oracle Corporation sued Cover Oregon for breach of contract,[116] 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".[117] 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.[118][119][120][121]

Class action tracking lawsuit

On August 23, 2022, Oracle was hit with a class action lawsuit by Lieff Cabraser representing Michael Katz-Lacabe, Dr. Jennifer Golbeck and Dr. Johnny Ryan, the latter of which is a senior fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. The lawsuit, which demands a jury trial, alleges that Oracle has engaged in "deliberate and purposeful surveillance of the general population via their digital and online existence", specifically focusing on Oracle operating a surveillance machine which tracks in real-time and records indefinitely the personal information of hundreds of millions of people. The litigants against Oracle argue that through such surveillance, the company violates the Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, California's state constitution, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, competition law, and California Common Law.[21][22]

Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

in 2012 Oracle agreed to pay about $2 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC at the time alleged that the company's India subsidiary structured transactions with foreign governments in a way that enabled them to hold about $2.2 million of the proceeds inside funds that could be used for unauthorized purposes and therefore being a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.[122]

In 2022 the Securities and Exchange Commission announced settled charges requiring Oracle Corporation to pay more than $23 million to resolve charges that it violated provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when subsidiaries in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and India created and used slush funds to bribe foreign officials in return for business between 2016 and 2019.[123]

Events

Acquisition of Sun Microsystems

Main article: Acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation

In January 2010, Oracle 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 European Commission because of concerns about MySQL, but was unconditionally approved in the end.[124] In September 2011, U.S. State Department Embassy cables were leaked[125] to WikiLeaks. One cable revealed that the U.S. pressured the E.U. to allow Oracle to acquire Sun.[126]

The Sun acquisition was closely watched by free software users and some companies, due to the fear that Oracle might end Sun's traditional support of free projects.[127][128][129][130] Since the acquisition, Oracle has discontinued OpenSolaris and StarOffice, and sued Google over the Java patents Oracle acquired from Sun.[131][132]

Fraud Accusations by the US Department of Justice

On July 29, 2010, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) 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.[133] It was settled in 2011.[134]

Lawsuit against Google

Main article: Oracle v. Google

Background

Oracle, the plaintiff, acquired ownership of the Java computer programing language when it acquired Sun Microsystems in January 2010.[135] The Java software includes sets of pre-developed software code to allow programs and apps to accomplish common tasks in a consistent manner. 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".[136]

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 37 copied Java packages as well as new packages developed by Google.[136]

First trial

In 2010, Oracle sued Google for copyright infringement for the use of the 37 Java packages.[136][135] The case was handled in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and assigned to Judge William Alsup (who taught himself how to code computers[137]).[135] In the lawsuit, Oracle sought between $1.4 billion and $6.1 billion.[135] In June 2011 the judge had to force Google through a judicial order to make public the details about Oracle's claim for damages.[135]

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[137]

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.[136]

First appeal

After the case was over, Oracle appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (750 F.3d 1339 (2014)).[136][138] 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.[138]

Supreme Court petition

On October 6, 2014, Google filed a petition to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court denied the petition.[138]

Second trial

The case was then returned to the U.S. District Court for another trial about Google's fair use defense.[138] Oracle sought $9 billion in damages.[139] In May 2016, the trial jury found that Google's use of Java's APIs was considered fair use.[138]

Second appeal

In February 2017, Oracle filed another appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.[138] 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."[139]

Discontinuation of OpenSolaris

On August 13, 2010, an internal Oracle memo leaked to the Internet cited plans for ending the OpenSolaris operating system project and community.[140] With Oracle planning to develop Solaris only in a closed source fashion, OpenSolaris developers moved to the Illumos and OpenIndiana project, among others.[141]

Discontinuation of OpenSSO

As Oracle completed their acquisition of Sun Microsystems in February 2010, they announced that OpenSSO would no longer be their strategic product.[142] Shortly after, OpenSSO was forked to OpenAM.[142] 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 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.[143] 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."[144]

On September 7, 2010, HP announced a civil lawsuit against Mark Hurd "to protect HP's trade secrets",[145] 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.[146]

OpenOffice.org issue

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.[147] On June 1, 2011, Oracle donated OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation.[148]

HP and Oracle lawsuit

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.[149] Oracle called the lawsuit "an abuse of the judicial process"[150] and said that had it known SAP's Léo Apotheker was about to be hired as HP's new CEO, any support for HP's Itanium servers would not have been implied.[151]

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.[152][153] HP was awarded $3 billion in damages against Oracle in 2016.[154] HP argued Oracle's canceling support damaged HP's Itanium server brand. Oracle had announced that it would appeal both the decision and damages, but the decision stayed.[155][156]

Foreign corrupt practices

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).[157]

In September 2022, Oracle settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) without admitting or denying its findings, by agreeing to pay $23 million to settle the charges. The SEC announced that Oracle violated the FCPA between 2014 and 2019 when its subsidiaries in India, Turkey and UAE created slush funds to bribe foreign officials in order to win business.[158]

GSA business bidding ban

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.[159] 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.[160]

U.S. TikTok's operations

On September 13, 2020, Bloomberg News reported that Oracle won a bidding war with other U.S.-based companies to take over social media company TikTok's operations in the United States following the company's pressure to forcibly be shut down by the Trump Administration. Oracle was described as a “trusted tech partner” by TikTok, suggesting the deal may not be as structured as an outright sale.[161] On September 19, 2020, the Trump Administration approved of the sale of TikTok's US operations to Oracle "[delaying] — by one week — restrictions that were originally to take effect" on September 20 as indicated by the United States Department of Commerce.[162]

On February 10, 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a source familiar with the matter, the Biden Administration would be backing off from banning TikTok and shelving the sale of TikTok indefinitely, as the U.S. Commerce Department began reviewing whether or not Trump's claims about TikTok can justify the attempts to ban it.[163]

People

  • Larry Ellison: executive chairman and CTO (since September 2014), co-founder of the company, previously CEO (1977–2014),[164] previously chairman (1990–2004). He owns 36% of the company.[165]
  • Safra Catz: CEO (since September 2014),[164] previously co-president (since 2004) and CFO.[166] In 2016, she was ranked tenth on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list.[167]
  • Jeff Henley: vice chairman (since September 2014), previously chairman (2004–2014) and CFO (1991–2004).
  • Mark Hurd: former CEO (2014–2019),[164] previously co-president (2010–2014). In 2007, Mark Hurd was ranked No. 16 on Fortune's list of the 25 Most Powerful People in Business.[168] He died in 2019.
  • Charles Phillips: former co-president and director (2003–2010); replaced by Mark Hurd.
  • Bob Miner: co-founder of the company and co-architect of Oracle Database. Led product design and development for Oracle Database (1977–1992). Spun off a technology group within Oracle in 1992. Oracle board member until 1993. He died in 1994.
  • Ed Oates: co-founder of the company. Retired from Oracle in 1996.
  • Umang Gupta: former vice president and general manager (1981–1984). Wrote the first business plan for the company.
  • Bruce Scott: The first hired employee (after the co-founders; employee number 4) at Oracle (then Software Development Laboratories). Scott served as the co-author and co-architect of the Oracle database up to Version 3. He left Oracle in 1982.[2][169]

Offices

Oracle Corporation has its overall headquarters in Austin, Texas. Oracle has plans to build its largest office hub, with 8500 jobs, in Nashville within the next few decades.

Oracle has a large office complex located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the Redwood Shores area of Redwood City, adjacent to Belmont and near San Carlos Airport. This complex is located 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 Oracle Parkway 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,[170] served as sets for the futuristic headquarters of the fictional company "NorthAm Robotics" in the Robin Williams film Bicentennial Man (1999).[171] The campus also represented the headquarters of Cyberdyne Systems in the movie Terminator Genisys (2015).[172]

 
Oracle offices in Redwood Shores, California
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    300 Oracle Parkway in Redwood Shores

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    Oracle Offices in Redwood Shores, with Oracle Plaza building in left foreground

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    Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores

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    Fountain in the Oracle lake, Redwood Shores

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    Oracle has a major business campus at Thames Valley Park in Reading in England

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    Oracle Aoyama Center Building, with Lexus International Gallery Aoyama

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    Oracle in Markham, Ontario

Corporate structures

Oracle Corporation operates in multiple markets and has acquired several companies which formerly functioned autonomously. In some cases these provided the starting points for global business units (GBUs) targeting particular vertical markets.[173] Oracle Corporation GBUs include:

  • Communications
  • Construction and engineering - formerly the Primavera GBU
  • Financial services
  • Food and Beverages
  • Health sciences
  • Hospitality
  • Retail
  • Utilities

Sponsorships

 
BMW Oracle Racing USA-71, at the German Sailing Grand Prix Kiel 2006. It was moored at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, California until 2014.

On October 20, 2006, the Golden State Warriors and the Oracle Corporation announced a 10-year agreement in which the Oakland Arena would become known as the Oracle Arena.[174] The agreement ended after the 2018-2019 NBA season when the Warriors relocated to the Chase Center in San Francisco.[175]

Larry Ellison's sailing team competes as Oracle Team USA. The team has won the America's Cup twice, in 2010 (as BMW Oracle Racing)[176] and in 2013,[177] despite being penalized for cheating.[178][179]

Sean Tucker's "Challenger II" stunt biplane is sponsored by Oracle and performs frequently at air shows around the US.[180]

In January 2019, the San Francisco Giants entered into a 20-year agreement to rename their stadium Oracle Park.[181]

From the 2022 Formula One season, Oracle signed a 5-year deal worth $500m to become title sponsors of Red Bull Racing.[182] In 1994 and 1995, Oracle sponsored Benetton. It was revealed in July 2022 that NASCAR's Joe Gibbs Racing team tried to sign a sponsorship with Oracle after Mars Inc. would announce they would leave JGR after the 2022 season, but the deal reportedly fell through.[183]

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oracle, corporation, american, multinational, computer, technology, corporation, headquartered, austin, texas, 2020, oracle, third, largest, software, company, world, revenue, market, capitalization, company, sells, database, software, technology, particularly. Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Austin Texas 5 In 2020 Oracle was the third largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization 6 The company sells database software and technology particularly its own brands cloud engineered systems and enterprise software products such as enterprise resource planning ERP software human capital management HCM software customer relationship management CRM software also known as customer experience enterprise performance management EPM software and supply chain management SCM software 7 Oracle CorporationTypePublicTraded asNYSE ORCLS amp P 100 ComponentS amp P 500 ComponentISINUS68389X1054 IndustryEnterprise softwareBusiness softwareCloud computingComputer hardwareConsultingFoundedJune 16 1977 45 years ago 1977 06 16 Santa Clara California U S 1 FoundersLarry EllisonBob MinerEd Oates 2 HeadquartersAustin Texas United StatesArea servedWorldwideKey peopleLarry Ellison Executive Chairman amp CTO Jeff Henley Vice Chairman Safra Catz CEO ProductsOracle ApplicationsOracle DatabaseOracle ERPOracle CloudEnterprise ManagerFusion MiddlewareServersWorkstationsStorage Full List ServicesApplicationsCloudRevenueUS 42 44 billion 2022 3 Operating incomeUS 10 93 billion 2022 3 Net incomeUS 6 72 billion 2022 3 Total assetsUS 109 3 billion 2022 3 Total equityUS 6 22 billion 2022 3 OwnerLarry Ellison 42 4 4 Number of employees143 000 May 2022 3 SubsidiariesList of Oracle subsidiariesWebsiteoracle comLarry Ellison executive chairman of Oracle Contents 1 History 2 Products and services 2 1 Software 2 1 1 Databases 2 1 2 Middleware 2 1 2 1 Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 2 1 2 2 Oracle Beehive 2 1 3 Applications 2 1 3 1 Third party applications 2 1 4 Enterprise management 2 1 5 Development software 2 1 6 File systems 2 1 7 Operating systems 2 2 Hardware 2 3 Services 2 3 1 Oracle Cloud 2 3 2 Other services 3 Marketing 3 1 Sales practices 3 2 Competition 3 2 1 Oracle and SAP 3 3 Slogans 3 4 Media 4 Finances 5 Carbon footprint 6 Controversies 6 1 Trashgate 6 2 Can t break it can t break in 6 3 Relationship with John Ashcroft 6 4 Expeditionary Combat Support System 6 5 Cover Oregon Healthcare Exchange 6 6 Class action tracking lawsuit 6 7 Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 7 Events 7 1 Acquisition of Sun Microsystems 7 2 Fraud Accusations by the US Department of Justice 7 3 Lawsuit against Google 7 3 1 Background 7 3 2 First trial 7 3 3 First appeal 7 3 4 Supreme Court petition 7 3 5 Second trial 7 3 6 Second appeal 7 4 Discontinuation of OpenSolaris 7 5 Discontinuation of OpenSSO 7 6 Mark Hurd as president 7 7 OpenOffice org issue 7 8 HP and Oracle lawsuit 7 9 Foreign corrupt practices 7 10 GSA business bidding ban 7 11 U S TikTok s operations 8 People 9 Offices 10 Corporate structures 11 Sponsorships 12 See also 13 References 14 Further reading 15 External linksHistory EditThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it September 2022 Larry Ellison co founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories SDL 2 Ellison took inspiration 8 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 9 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 10 then again to Oracle Systems Corporation in 1983 11 to align itself more closely with its flagship product Oracle Database The name also drew from the 1977 CIA project codename which was also Oracle s first customer 12 At this stage Bob Miner served as the company s senior programmer On March 12 1986 the company had its initial public offering 13 In 1995 Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corporation 14 officially named Oracle but is sometimes referred to as Oracle Corporation the name of the holding company 15 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 16 In 2005 Oracle acquired PeopleSoft an ERP company and in 2006 Siebel a CRM company In 2008 Oracle acquired BEA Systems an enterprise infrastructure software company and in 2010 it acquired Sun Microsystems a computer hardware and software company famous for its Java programming language In an effort to compete with Amazon Web Services and its products Oracle announced in 2019 it was partnering with former rival Microsoft The alliance called that Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure would be directly connected allowing customers of each to store data on both cloud computing platforms and run software on either Oracle or Azure Some saw this not only as an attempt to compete with Amazon but also Google and Salesforce which acquired Looker and Tableau Software respectively 17 On December 20 2021 Oracle announced the acquisition of Cerner a health information technology company 18 The next day on December 21 Oracle made public the acquisition of Federos an AI and automation tools company for network performance 19 The acquisition of Cerner was completed in June 2022 for 28 3 billion in cash 20 On August 23 2022 Oracle was hit with a class action lawsuit which alleges that Oracle has been operating a surveillance machine which tracks in real time and records indefinitely the personal information of hundreds of millions of people 21 22 Products and services EditOracle designs manufactures and sells both software and hardware products and offers 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 23 Databases Edit 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 Server 10g 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 was the first middle tier software designed for grid computing 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 citation needed Release 11 Release 11g became available 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 24 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 25 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 update 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 26 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 intelligence systems 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 27 Applications Edit Following a number of acquisitions beginning in 2003 especially in the area of applications Oracle Corporation as of 2008 update maintains a number of product lines Oracle E Business Suite PeopleSoft Enterprise Siebel JD Edwards JD Edwards EnterpriseOne JD Edwards World Merchandise Operations Management Formerly Retek Planning amp Optimisation Store Operations Formerly 360Commerce 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 28 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 29 Motus 30 and Knoa Software 31 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 32 The Primavera products of Oracle s Construction amp Engineering Global Business Unit CEGBU consist of project management software 33 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 softwareMany 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 34 Exalogic Elastic Cloud hardware software integrated application server Exalytics In Memory Machine hardware software integrated in memory analytics server 35 Oracle Database Appliance 36 Big Data Appliance integrated map reduce big data solution 37 SPARC SuperCluster T4 4 a general purpose engineered system 38 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 39 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 free and third party software and systems 40 Software as a Service SaaS 41 Enterprise applications SCM EPM HCM ERP and CX SaaS offerings 42 Oracle sells a SaaS suite of Oracle Fusion Applications business applications On July 28 2016 Oracle bought NetSuite the first cloud company for 9 3 billion 43 NetSuite provides cloud ERP CRM supply chain and e commerce software to small and medium sized businesses It is regarded as the first fully cloud company in the world and is an industry leader in its own right Platform as a Service PaaS 41 Oracle has branded its Platform as a Service as Oracle Cloud Platform Oracle Cloud Platform include Data Management Application Development Integration Content and Experience Business Analytics Management and Security 44 45 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 46 Data as a Service DaaS Oracle Data Cloud is composed of several acquisitions including AddThis BlueKai Crosswise Datalogix Grapeshot and Moat 47 Infrastructure as a Service IaaS 41 Oracle has branded its Infrastructure as a Service as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offerings include the following services 48 Compute Service Storage Service Network ServiceOn May 16 2018 Oracle announced that it had acquired DataScience com a privately held cloud workspace platform for data science projects and workloads 49 Other services Edit Oracle Consulting technical and business expert services Oracle Financing Oracle Marketing amp Support Product support Oracle Corporation identifies its customers and their support entitlements using CSI Customer Support Identifier codes 50 Registered customers can submit Service Requests SRs 51 usually via the web accessible My Oracle Support 52 MOS 53 a re incarnation of Oracle Metalink 54 with web access administered by a site Customer User Administrator CUA 55 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 56 Oracle Configuration Manager OCM previously Customer Configuration repository or CCR gathers and uploads details of the configuration of Oracle software 57 Oracle Auto Service Request ASR automatically creates Service Requests for specific hardware faults on qualified Oracle server storage Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic products 58 My Oracle Support Community MOSC 59 Oracle University training in Oracle products 60 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 61 As of September 13 2020 Oracle acquired a trade deal with the ByteDance owned social video platform TikTok This was the result of an executive order issued by U S president Donald Trump stating that TikTok must be sold to a U S company by September 15 2020 The exact nature of the agreement is still unknown but it implies that Oracle will become TikTok s technology partner and assume responsibility for the company s U S user data The agreement is still pending approval from regulatory government bodies 62 63 Marketing EditSales practices Edit In 1990 Oracle laid off 10 about 400 people of its work force because of accounting errors 64 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 65 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 64 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 66 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 update Oracle competes for new database licenses on UNIX GNU and Windows operating systems primarily against IBM s Db2 and Microsoft SQL Server IBM s Db2 still update 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 67 Oracle Corporation s main competitors in the database arena remain IBM Db2 and Microsoft SQL Server and to a lesser extent Sybase and Teradata 67 with free databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL also having a significant 68 share of the market EnterpriseDB based on PostgreSQL has recently update made inroads 69 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 70 71 competes against SAP On March 22 2007 Oracle sued SAP accusing them of fraud and unfair competition 72 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 73 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 74 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 75 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 markets 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 76 and also by providing special discounts on licenses and services to SAP customers who chose Oracle Corporation products Currently update 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 77 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 78 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 79 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 80 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 81 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 82 Slogans Edit Information driven 83 84 For the Oracle Database Can t break it can t break in 85 and Unbreakable 86 Enabling the Information Age 87 Enabling the Information Age Through Network Computing 88 89 90 As of 2008 update The Information Company 91 As of 2010 Software Hardware Complete 92 As of late 2010 Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together 93 94 As of mid 2015 Integrated Cloud Applications and Platform Services 95 Media Edit Oracle Corporation produces and distributes the Oracle ClearView series of videos as part of its marketing mix 96 Finances EditDevelopment since 2005 97 Year Revenuein mil US Net Incomein mil US Price per Sharein US Employees2005 11 799 2 886 11 452006 14 380 3 381 13 602007 17 996 4 274 17 412008 22 430 5 521 17 862009 23 252 5 593 18 032010 26 820 6 135 23 022011 35 622 8 547 28 562012 37 121 9 981 27 372013 37 180 10 925 31 28 122 0002014 38 275 10 955 37 72 122 0002015 38 226 9 938 38 85 132 0002016 37 047 8 901 37 94 136 0002017 37 728 9 335 45 70 138 0002018 39 831 3 825 47 28 137 0002019 39 506 11 083 45 15 136 0002020 39 068 10 135 52 98 135 0002021 40 479 13 746 64 69 132 0002022 42 440 6 717 87 21 143 000Oracle was ranked No 82 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue 98 According to Bloomberg Oracle s CEO to employee pay ratio is 1 205 1 The CEO s compensation in 2017 was 108 295 023 Oracle is one of the approved employers of ACCA and the median employee compensation rate was 89 887 99 Carbon footprint EditOracle reported total carbon dioxide equivalent CO2e emissions direct indirect for the twelve months ending December 31 2020 at 428 kilotonnes 63 17 year over year 100 and plans to reduce emissions 26 by 2025 from a 2015 base year 101 Oracle s annual total CO2e emissions market based scope 1 scope 2 in kilotonnes Dec 2017 Dec 2018 Dec 2019 Dec 2020418 102 380 103 366 104 428 100 Controversies EditTrashgate 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 against Microsoft 105 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 106 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 107 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 108 109 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 110 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 111 Expeditionary Combat Support System Edit Computer Sciences Corporation as the prime contractor reportedly spent a billion dollars developing the Expeditionary Combat Support System for the United States Air Force It yielded no significant capability because according to an Air Force source the prime contractor was simply not up to the task of adapting the Oracle software on which the system was based to meet the specialized performance criteria 112 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 113 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 114 115 In August 2014 Oracle Corporation sued Cover Oregon for breach of contract 116 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 117 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 118 119 120 121 Class action tracking lawsuit Edit On August 23 2022 Oracle was hit with a class action lawsuit by Lieff Cabraser representing Michael Katz Lacabe Dr Jennifer Golbeck and Dr Johnny Ryan the latter of which is a senior fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties The lawsuit which demands a jury trial alleges that Oracle has engaged in deliberate and purposeful surveillance of the general population via their digital and online existence specifically focusing on Oracle operating a surveillance machine which tracks in real time and records indefinitely the personal information of hundreds of millions of people The litigants against Oracle argue that through such surveillance the company violates the Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act California s state constitution the California Invasion of Privacy Act competition law and California Common Law 21 22 Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Edit in 2012 Oracle agreed to pay about 2 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC The SEC at the time alleged that the company s India subsidiary structured transactions with foreign governments in a way that enabled them to hold about 2 2 million of the proceeds inside funds that could be used for unauthorized purposes and therefore being a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 122 In 2022 the Securities and Exchange Commission announced settled charges requiring Oracle Corporation to pay more than 23 million to resolve charges that it violated provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when subsidiaries in Turkey the United Arab Emirates UAE and India created and used slush funds to bribe foreign officials in return for business between 2016 and 2019 123 Events EditAcquisition of Sun Microsystems Edit Main article Acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation In January 2010 Oracle 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 European Commission because of concerns about MySQL but was unconditionally approved in the end 124 In September 2011 U S State Department Embassy cables were leaked 125 to WikiLeaks One cable revealed that the U S pressured the E U to allow Oracle to acquire Sun 126 The Sun acquisition was closely watched by free software users and some companies due to the fear that Oracle might end Sun s traditional support of free projects 127 128 129 130 Since the acquisition Oracle has discontinued OpenSolaris and StarOffice and sued Google over the Java patents Oracle acquired from Sun 131 132 Fraud Accusations by the US Department of Justice Edit On July 29 2010 the United States Department of Justice DoJ 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 133 It was settled in 2011 134 Lawsuit against Google Edit Main article Oracle v Google Background Edit Oracle the plaintiff acquired ownership of the Java computer programing language when it acquired Sun Microsystems in January 2010 135 The Java software includes sets of pre developed software code to allow programs and apps to accomplish common tasks in a consistent manner 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 136 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 37 copied Java packages as well as new packages developed by Google 136 First trial Edit In 2010 Oracle sued Google for copyright infringement for the use of the 37 Java packages 136 135 The case was handled in U S District Court for the Northern District of California and assigned to Judge William Alsup who taught himself how to code computers 137 135 In the lawsuit Oracle sought between 1 4 billion and 6 1 billion 135 In June 2011 the judge had to force Google through a judicial order to make public the details about Oracle s claim for damages 135 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 17 137 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 136 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 136 138 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 138 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 138 Second trial Edit The case was then returned to the U S District Court for another trial about Google s fair use defense 138 Oracle sought 9 billion in damages 139 In May 2016 the trial jury found that Google s use of Java s APIs was considered fair use 138 Second appeal Edit In February 2017 Oracle filed another appeal to the U S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 138 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 139 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 140 With Oracle planning to develop Solaris only in a closed source fashion OpenSolaris developers moved to the Illumos and OpenIndiana project among others 141 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 142 Shortly after OpenSSO was forked to OpenAM 142 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 143 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 144 On September 7 2010 HP announced a civil lawsuit against Mark Hurd to protect HP s trade secrets 145 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 146 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 147 On June 1 2011 Oracle donated OpenOffice org to the Apache Software Foundation 148 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 149 Oracle called the lawsuit an abuse of the judicial process 150 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 151 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 152 153 HP was awarded 3 billion in damages against Oracle in 2016 154 HP argued Oracle s canceling support damaged HP s Itanium server brand Oracle had announced that it would appeal both the decision and damages but the decision stayed 155 156 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 157 In September 2022 Oracle settled with the U S Securities and Exchange Commission SEC without admitting or denying its findings by agreeing to pay 23 million to settle the charges The SEC announced that Oracle violated the FCPA between 2014 and 2019 when its subsidiaries in India Turkey and UAE created slush funds to bribe foreign officials in order to win business 158 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 159 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 160 U S TikTok s operations Edit On September 13 2020 Bloomberg News reported that Oracle won a bidding war with other U S based companies to take over social media company TikTok s operations in the United States following the company s pressure to forcibly be shut down by the Trump Administration Oracle was described as a trusted tech partner by TikTok suggesting the deal may not be as structured as an outright sale 161 On September 19 2020 the Trump Administration approved of the sale of TikTok s US operations to Oracle delaying by one week restrictions that were originally to take effect on September 20 as indicated by the United States Department of Commerce 162 On February 10 2021 The Wall Street Journal reported citing a source familiar with the matter the Biden Administration would be backing off from banning TikTok and shelving the sale of TikTok indefinitely as the U S Commerce Department began reviewing whether or not Trump s claims about TikTok can justify the attempts to ban it 163 People EditLarry Ellison executive chairman and CTO since September 2014 co founder of the company previously CEO 1977 2014 164 previously chairman 1990 2004 He owns 36 of the company 165 Safra Catz CEO since September 2014 164 previously co president since 2004 and CFO 166 In 2016 she was ranked tenth on Fortune s Most Powerful Women list 167 Jeff Henley vice chairman since September 2014 previously chairman 2004 2014 and CFO 1991 2004 Mark Hurd former CEO 2014 2019 164 previously co president 2010 2014 In 2007 Mark Hurd was ranked No 16 on Fortune s list of the 25 Most Powerful People in Business 168 He died in 2019 Charles Phillips former co president and director 2003 2010 replaced by Mark Hurd Bob Miner co founder of the company and co architect of Oracle Database Led product design and development for Oracle Database 1977 1992 Spun off a technology group within Oracle in 1992 Oracle board member until 1993 He died in 1994 Ed Oates co founder of the company Retired from Oracle in 1996 Umang Gupta former vice president and general manager 1981 1984 Wrote the first business plan for the company Bruce Scott The first hired employee after the co founders employee number 4 at Oracle then Software Development Laboratories Scott served as the co author and co architect of the Oracle database up to Version 3 He left Oracle in 1982 2 169 Offices EditOracle Corporation has its overall headquarters in Austin Texas Oracle has plans to build its largest office hub with 8500 jobs in Nashville within the next few decades Oracle has a large office complex located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the Redwood Shores area of Redwood City adjacent to Belmont and near San Carlos Airport This complex is located 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 Oracle Parkway 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 170 served as sets for the futuristic headquarters of the fictional company NorthAm Robotics in the Robin Williams film Bicentennial Man 1999 171 The campus also represented the headquarters of Cyberdyne Systems in the movie Terminator Genisys 2015 172 Oracle offices in Redwood Shores California 300 Oracle Parkway in Redwood Shores Oracle Offices in Redwood Shores with Oracle Plaza building in left foreground Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores Fountain in the Oracle lake Redwood Shores Oracle has a major business campus at Thames Valley Park in Reading in England Oracle Aoyama Center Building with Lexus International Gallery Aoyama Oracle in Markham OntarioCorporate structures EditOracle Corporation operates in multiple markets and has acquired several companies which formerly functioned autonomously In some cases these provided the starting points for global business units GBUs targeting particular vertical markets 173 Oracle Corporation GBUs include Communications Construction and engineering formerly the Primavera GBU Financial services Food and Beverages Health sciences Hospitality Retail UtilitiesSponsorships Edit BMW Oracle Racing USA 71 at the German Sailing Grand Prix Kiel 2006 It was moored at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores California until 2014 On October 20 2006 the Golden State Warriors and the Oracle Corporation announced a 10 year agreement in which the Oakland Arena would become known as the Oracle Arena 174 The agreement ended after the 2018 2019 NBA season when the Warriors relocated to the Chase Center in San Francisco 175 Larry Ellison s sailing team competes as Oracle Team USA The team has won 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