Oracle, whose full name is Oracle Corporation (Oracle Software Systems Co., Ltd.), is the world's largest enterprise software company, headquartered in Redwood Beach, California, USA. Officially entered the Chinese market in 1989. In 2013, Oracle surpassed IBM and became the world's second largest software company after Microsoft.
In December 2018, the "Top 500 World Brands 2018" compiled by the World Brand Laboratory was announced, and Oracle ranked 31st. Basic introduction Company name: Oracle Corporation Foreign name: Oracle Headquarters location: Redwood City, California, USA Founded: California (1977) Business scope: Database software Company slogan: Information-driven Annual turnover: US$37.9 billion (2014) Number of employees: 108492 (2011) Company type: Listed company Company size: Fortune 100 CEO: Mark Hurd Official website:: oracle/ Development history, early days, growth, acquisitions and listings, product business, operating system, virtual Technology, Java platform, database management system, other software, company profile, latest market value, claim rejection, company profit, company agreement, social evaluation, development history In the early 1970s, a software company called Ampex was born. Ellison was one of the programmers who designed a database called Oracle for the CIA. In 1977, Ellison and his colleague Robert Miner founded the "Sofare Development Labs" (Sofare Development Labs). At that time, IBM published a paper on "relational databases", and Ellison used this to create a new database called Oracle. In 1978, the company moved to Silicon Valley and changed its name to "Relational Software, Inc." (RSI). RSI released a commercial ORACLE product that can be used on DEC's PDP-11 computer in the summer of 1979. This database product integrates a relatively complete SQL implementation, including subqueries, connections and other features. The CIA wanted to buy a set of such software to meet their needs, but after consulting IBM, they found that IBM had no commercial products available, so they contacted RSI. So RSI got its first customer. IBM, which first proposed the "relational database", uses RSI's database. In 1982, it was renamed Oracle. Development and expansion: In 1984, within three years, it successively entered Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Austria, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Norway, and Spain. When it went public in 1986, its annual revenue soared to US$55 million. In March of the same year, it went public and raised US$31.5 million. Revenue reached $131 million in 1987, and Oracle became the world's fourth largest software company a year later. Within two years, we will expand into Mexico, Brazil, China, Cyprus, Malaysia and New Zealand. A year later, revenue doubled again to $282 million. In 1990, Oracle launched its army into Chile, Greece, South Korea, Portugal, Turkey, Venezuela, Taiwan, Belgium, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica and the Philippines within two years. However, Oracle's performance suffered a loss for the first time that year, and its market value After plummeting 80%, Ellison arranged for senior managers to participate in operations for the first time. In 1992, the launch of the flagship product Oracle 7 put the company's business back on track, with annual revenue reaching $1.179 billion. Raymond Lane, who was once regarded as Oracle's successor but was later kicked out, served as chief operating officer. Acquisition and listing In 1995, Ellison announced that the PC was dead, pushed all products to the Internet, and formed a new company called "Neork Computer" to sell "network computers", but it was eventually eliminated. In 2000, when the science and technology network was coming to an end, it launched E-Business Suite to seize the application product market, posing a serious conflict of interest with its former business partners. During the same period, Microsoft and IBM's data technologies improved. Since then, Oracle's share of new orders has dropped by 6.6% in two years, and its business has declined by 10%.
In 2003, the hostile takeover of PeopleSoft Software caused an uproar in the industry. Controversial news about the two companies emerges one after another. In the same year, the U.S. Attorney's Tribunal case blocked Oracle's acquisition. In 2004, after 18 months of tug-of-war, the company finally successfully acquired PeopleSoft Software. In 2007, BEA Systems was acquired. On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced that it would acquire Sun Microsystems (Sun) for US$9.50 per share, for a total of US$7.4 billion. On February 4, 2013, it acquired Acme Packet, a manufacturer of network transmission products, at a price of US$29.25 per share, with a transaction size of approximately US$1.7 billion. On July 15, 2013, Oracle Corporation officially transferred its listing from Nasdaq to the New York Stock Exchange. After transferring to the New York Stock Exchange, Oracle will continue to use the trading code "ORCL". In 2013, Oracle surpassed IBM and became the world's second largest software company after Microsoft. On June 7, 2017, Oracle ranked 81st among the 2017 Fortune 500 companies in the United States, with operating income of US$37,047 million. In December 2018, the "Top 500 World Brands 2018" compiled by the World Brand Laboratory was announced, and Oracle ranked 31st. Product Business Oracle's products mainly fall into the following categories: 1. Servers and tools (main competitors: IBM, Microsoft) Database server: the latest version of Oracle 12C in 2013. Application server: Oracle Application Server. Development tools: OracleJDeveloper, Oracle Designer, Oracle Developer, etc. 2. Enterprise application software (main competitor: German SAP company) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Has a history of more than 10 years. In 2005, it acquired PeopleSoft, which develops enterprise software, to enhance its competitiveness in this area. Customer relationship management (CRM) software. This software has been developed since 1998. In 2005, it acquired Siebel Software Company (Siebel), which developed customer relationship management software. 3. Oracle Career Development Program (Oracle WDP) Oracle WDP, the full name of Oracle Workforce Development Program, is a career development course offered by Oracle specifically for students, individuals, working personnel and other groups. Oracle's technology is widely used in various industries, including telecommunications, electric power, finance, government and a large number of manufacturing industries that require Oracle technical talents. Oracle's global promotion projects for the vocational education market provide this sector with low costs. Oracle technology training is provided to the crowd. After systematic training, this group of people can quickly master the latest core technologies of Oracle and be competent in the management, maintenance and development of large enterprise databases. Operating System · Solaris · Oracle Linux Virtual Technology · Oracle VM · VirtualBox Java Platform · Java · GlassFish (Sun Java System Application Server) · WebLogic Database Management System · Oracle Database · Berkeley DB · MySQL · Java DB Other Software · NetBeans · Sun Grid Engine · Sun Studio Company Profile Latest Market Value In mature capital markets, market value is a dynamic result that measures a company's comprehensive competitiveness such as size, profit, and growth. According to data released by the Financial Times in January on the world's top 500 companies by market capitalization at the end of 2010, Apple topped the year-end list of the global IT industry's market capitalization for the first time. The companies that can enter the top ten by market value are all respectable top IT companies, arranged in order of market value. These ten companies are Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Google, Samsung Electronics, Intel, Cisco, HP and Amazon.
Claim Rejected On July 23, 2011, US federal judge William Alsup (William Alsup) on Friday rejected Oracle's claim that Google should compensate Google for billions of dollars in damages due to infringement of Java patents. Alsop dismissed Oracle's damage report, calling Oracle's compensation demands "excessive on multiple fronts." Alsop also said Oracle could request a postponement of the trial to make an objective and credible claim for compensation. Google, which believes Oracle should not receive any damages, did not comment on Alsop's ruling on Friday. Oracle spokesperson Deborah Hellinger also declined to comment on Friday's ruling. Company Profit In 2010, Oracle said its fourth-quarter total profit was US$2.36 billion, or 46 cents per share, which was much better than the previous quarter's performance of US$1.89 billion, or 38 cents per share. Oracle has always had a tradition of announcing optimistic financial figures at the end of the fourth fiscal quarter. The company's sales department always likes to offer deep discounts at the end of the fiscal year to improve performance, so that many customers will postpone their purchases to May to get a very low price. price. "Three things are certain in life, death, taxes and Oracle's fourth quarter," said Cowen and Co analyst Peter Goldmacher. This time is no exception. Oracle said total revenue in the last fiscal quarter ended May 31 rose 39% to $9.51 billion. Software registration revenue, which reflects the latest sales performance, also increased by 14%, which was better than the company's previous expectations. Hardware sales also contributed 1.8 billion in revenue to Oracle, which was mainly due to the company's acquisition of the US computer company Sun Microsystems that ended in January. Oracle said the company will spend an additional $675 million to $825 million in 2011, mainly to pay layoffs and severance payments to its European and Asian branches. As of May 31, 2011, Oracle's total number of employees dropped to 104,569 from 106,492 in February. For this fiscal quarter, Oracle expects quarterly revenue growth between 39% and 43%, with earnings per share ranging from 17 cents to 18 cents. Company Agreement Acquisition of Sun On April 20, 2009, Taipei time, Oracle announced that it would acquire Sun at US$9.50 per share, a transaction valued at approximately US$7.4 billion. This news is quite surprising. People familiar with the matter said Sun rejected IBM's $9.4 per share bid and acquired VirtualBox desktop virtualization software. Gosling said: "Oracle will always be committed to keeping Java and the entire ecosystem strong and stable." He also said that an upgraded version of the Java Store will be launched soon. The Java Store launched on a trial basis in 2011 as an online store for discovering and purchasing Java and JavaFX programs. Oracle completed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems and acquired Java technology. After working for Sun for many years, Gosling now serves as the CTO (chief technology officer) of Oracle's customer software department. Gosling said that Java EE 6 will become the basis for the next generation of enterprise software; the software was approved on November 30, 2011 after seven years of research and development. Java EE6 provides features such as modularization and task-based configuration profiles. Java EE 6 provides web-based files as well as full files. The technical specifications of Java EE6 also include application programming interfaces such as JAX-RS 1.1, Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1, Managed Beans 1.0 and Java-WS 2.2. Acquisition of Eloqua On December 20, 2012, Taipei time, software giant Oracle announced that it had reached an agreement with listed company Eloqua and would acquire the cloud-based automated marketing and revenue performance management software company. Oracle will acquire Eloqua for $23.50 per share, for a total value of nearly $871 million, an average premium of 31% per share.
Oracle plans to integrate several major technologies into Eloqua's products in order to provide customers with more valuable services. Oracle has more than 1,200 customers including HP, Nuance, Comcast, LinkedIn, Box, Google and Adobe. The organization is using Eloqua's SaaS system to manage its marketing operations. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2013, but Eloqua will continue to operate independently until the transaction is completed. Social Evaluation Almost all industries in the world are using Oracle technology. 98 companies among the Fortune 100 companies use Oracle technology. Oracle was the first company to develop and deploy 100% Internet-based enterprise software across its entire product line (databases, business applications, and application development and decision support tools). Oracle is the world's leading information management software provider and the world's second largest independent software company. It helps Chinese software companies succeed in the rapidly growing economy and promotes the development of China's software industry. It also provides cost-effective, reliable and secure enterprise software to Chinese users and contributes to their business growth. Oracle acquired Sun and included Java. The industry has a lot of concerns about the future of Java, the language most respected by programmers around the world, although Oracle has made it clear that it will continue to develop JDK and continue to support Java. IBM said that the collaborative work of IBM, Oracle and other Java community partners on OpenJDK will accelerate innovation in the Java platform. The cooperation between Oracle and IBM also marks that enterprise customers can continue to rely on the Java community to provide more open, flexible and innovative new technologies to promote their business growth.