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Who?
Larry Ellison: Co-Founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation
Aug. 22, 2008:
Associated Press ranked
Ellison "the top-paid
chief executive in
the world"
What?
How?
Oracle - An American multinational computer technology corporation, specialzing in developing /marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software
products (particularly database management systems).
They build tools for database development & systems of middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software
(CRM) & supply chain management (SCM) software.
Goal: Provide customers with hardware & software engineered to work together and solve their business needs / problems.
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. This gave Oracle Corporation an advantage over companies using operating-system-specific languages.
Oracle Corporation programmers wrote the first compiler for the IBM mainframe platform.
They employ approximately 111,298 people worldwide.
By 2007 Oracle had the third-largest software revenue, after Microsoft and IBM.
As Oracle has further developed technologies and acquired best-in-class companies over the years, that leadership has expanded to the entire technology stack, from servers and storage, to database and middleware, through applications and into the cloud.
By: Christina Giannitsis
Where?
Why?
Headquarters:
500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, Redwood City, California, United States
Offices in more than 145 countries around theworld
Ellison took inspiration from the 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database management systems (RDBMS). The paper was named “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.”
He heard about the IBM System R database from IBM Research Journal provided by Ed Oates and had a vision of a working prototype for a relational database.
When?
1977: Ellison co-founded Oracle Corp. with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL)
1979: SDL changed its name to Relational Software, Inc. (RSI)
1982: RSI renamed itself Oracle Systems
1995: Oracle Systems becomes Oracle Corporation