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company_name = Oracle Corporation | company_logo = | company_type = Public ( NASDAQ : ORCL ) | company_slogan = Information driven | foundation = California ( 1977 ) Oracle.com FAQ , oraFAQ.com | location = Redwood Shores, California | key_people = Lawrence (Larry) J. Ellison , CEO Jeff Henley , Chairman Safra Catz , President/CFO Chuck Phillips , President | num_employees = 49,872 (2005) | industry = Software & Programming | products = Oracle Database Oracle EBusiness Suite Oracle Application Server Oracle JDeveloper Oracle ADF Oracle Collaboration Suite Oracle Enterprise Manager | revenue = $11.799 billion USD (2005)| operating_income = $4.022 billion USD (2005)| net_income = $2.886 billion USD (2005)| homepage = www.oracle.com }} Oracle Corporation () is one of the major companies developing Database Management System s, tools for Database development, Enterprise Resource Planning software, Customer Relationship Management software (CRM) and Supply Chain Planning (SCM) software. Oracle was founded in 1977 , and has offices in more than 145 countries around the world. As Of 2005 , it employs over 50,000 worldwide. Lawrence J. Ellison (Larry Ellison) has served as Oracle's CEO for several years. Ellison served as the Chairman Of The Board until his replacement by Jeff Henley in 2004. Ellison retains his role as CEO. Forbes magazine once judged Ellison the richest man in the world. Ellison was inspired by the paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational Database Systems named ''A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks''. He had heard about the IBM System R database, also based on Codd's theories, and wanted Oracle to be compatible with it, but IBM stopped this by keeping the error codes for their DBMS secret. He founded Oracle in 1977 under the name Software Development Laboratories. In 1979 SDL changed its name to '''Relational Software, Inc.''' (RSI). In 1983, RSI was renamed Oracle Corporation to more closely align itself with its flagship product Oracle Database with Howard Johns as senior programmer. Products . Oracle Application Server 10g using Java EE comprises the server part of that version of the database, making it possible to deploy Web technology applications. The application server is the first Middle-tier software designed for Grid Computing . The strong interrelationship between Oracle 10g and Java has enabled the company to allow developers to set up Stored Procedure s written in the Java language, as well as those written in the traditional Oracle database programming language, PL/SQL . Oracle Corporation's tools for developing applications include Oracle Designer , Oracle Developer - that consists of Oracle (Web)Forms, Oracle Discoverer and Oracle Reports , Oracle JDeveloper , and several more. Many external and third-party tools make the Oracle Database Administrator 's tasks easier. Besides databases, Oracle also sells a suite of business applications. The Oracle e-Business Suite includes software to perform financial, manufacturing and HR ( Human Resource Management Systems ) related functions. User access to these facilities is provided through a browser interface over the internet or corporate intranet. ''"Can't break it, can't break in"'' Oracle markets many of its products using the slogan "''can't break it, can't break in''". This signifies the increasing demands on information safety. Oracle Corporation also stresses the reliability of networked databases and network access to databases as major selling points. The slogan backfired just weeks after its introduction in 2002, as . Competition 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) Competitors include Sybase , IBM , SAP , Teradata , MySQL and Microsoft . History
Relationship with John Ashcroft Former Attorney General John Ashcroft sued Oracle in 2004 to prevent a contract acquistion. Then, in 2005 Oracle hired Ashcroft's recently created lobbying firm, The Ashcroft Group, LLC. Oracle, with Ashcroft's lobbying, then went on to acquire the contract, a multi-billion dollar intelligence application.Chicago Tribune: '' Ashcroft breaks with tradition by lobbying, has earned $269,000 '' Headquarters Oracle Corporation has its world headquarters on the San Francisco Peninsula in the Redwood Shores area of Redwood City , adjacent to Belmont , near San Carlos Airport (SQL). Oracle HQ stands on the former site of Marine World , which moved from Redwood Shores to Vallejo in 1986. Oracle Corporation originally leased two buildings from the site, moving its finance and administration departments from the corporation's former headquarters in Menlo Park. Eventually, Oracle purchased the complex and constructed a further four main buildings. The Oracle Parkway buildings were prominently featured as the futuristic headquarters of fictional company "NorthAm Robotics" in the Robin Williams film '' Bicentennial Man '' (1999).IMDb: '' Trivia for Bicentennial Man '' Notes External links
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