Oracle: January 2009

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June 16, 1977: Oracle Corporation incorporated in Redwood Shores, California^[1] as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
June 1979: SDL renamed to "Relational Software Inc." (RSI), and relocated to Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California. Oracle 2, the first version of the Oracle database software, as purchased by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, runs on PDP-11 hardware. The company decides to name the first version of its flagship product "version 2" rather than "version 1" because it believes customers might hesitate to buy the initial release of its product.
October 1979: RSI actively promotes Oracle on the VAX platform (the software runs on the VAX in PDP-11 emulator mode)
1981 Umang Gupta joined Oracle Corporation where he wrote the first business plan for the company and served as Vice President and General Manager
February 1981: RSI begins developing tools for the Oracle Database, including the Interactive Application Facility (IAF), a predecessor to Oracle*Forms.
March 1983: RSI rewrites Oracle in C for portability and releases Oracle version 3. RSI takes the name "Oracle" in order to align more closely with its primary product. The name Oracle came from the code name of a CIA project which the founders had all worked on while at the Ampex Corporation.
April 1984: Oracle received additional funding from Sequoia Capital.
October 1984: Oracle version 4 released, introducing read consistency
November 1984: Oracle database software ported to the PC platform. The MS-DOS version (4.1.4) of Oracle runs in only 512K of memory. (Oracle for MSDOS version 5, released in 1986, runs in Protected Mode on 286 machines using a technique invented by Mike Roberts, among the first products to do so.)
April 1985: Oracle version 5 released — one of the first RDBMSs to operate in client-server mode.
1986: Oracle version 5.1 released with support for distributed queries. Investigations into clustering begin.
March 12, 1986: Oracle goes public with revenues of $55 million USD.
August 1987: Oracle founds its Applications division, building business-management software closely integrated with its database software. Oracle Corporation acquires TCI for its project management software.
1988: Oracle version 6 released with support for row-level locking and hot backups. The developers embedded the PL/SQL procedural language engine into the database but made no provision to store program blocks such as procedures and triggers in the database - this capability came in version 7. Users could submit PL/SQL blocks for immediate execution in the server from an environment such as SQL*Plus, or via SQL statements embedded in a host program. Oracle Corporation included separate PL/SQL engines in various client tools (such as SQL*Forms and Reports).
1989: Oracle Corporation moves its world headquarters to Redwood Shores, California. Revenues reach US$584 million
1990: In the third quarter, Oracle reports its first ever loss; it lays off hundreds of employees. Ellison hires Jeffrey O. Henley as CFO and Raymond Lane as COO.
June 1992: Oracle 7 released with performance enhancements, administrative utilities, application-development tools, security features, the ability to persist PL/SQL program units in the database as stored procedures and triggers, and support for declarative referential integrity
1993: Oracle Corporation releases its "Cooperative Development Environment" (CDE), which bundles Oracle Forms, Reports, Graphics, Book
1994: Oracle acquired the database-product DEC Rdb (now called Oracle Rdb) from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Oracle Rdb operates only on the OpenVMS platform (also a former product of DEC).
June 21, 1995: Oracle Corporation announces new data-warehousing facilities, including parallel queries.
November 1995: Oracle becomes one of the first^{[citation needed]} large software companies to announce an Internet strategy when Ellison introduces the network computer concept at an IDC conference in Paris
April 1997: Oracle releases the first version of Discoverer, an ad-hoc query tool for business intelligence (BI).
June 1997: Oracle 8 released with SQL object technology, Internet technology and support for terabytes of data
September 1997: Oracle Corporation announces its commitment to the Java platform, and introduces Oracle's Java integrated development environment, subsequently called "Oracle JDeveloper".
January 1998: Oracle releases Oracle Applications 10.7 Network Computing Architecture (NCA). All the applications in the business software now run across the web in a standard web browser.
May 1998: Oracle Corporation releases Oracle Applications 11
April 1998: Oracle announces that it will integrate a Java virtual machine with Oracle Database.
September 1998: Oracle 8i released.
October 1998: Oracle 8 and Oracle Application Server 4.0 released on the Linux platform.
May 1999: Oracle releases JDeveloper 2.0, showcasing Business Components for Java (BC4J), a set of libraries and development tools for building database-aware applications.
2000: OracleMobile subsidiary founded. Oracle 9i released.
May 2000: Oracle announces the Internet File System (iFS), later re-branded as Oracle Content Management SDK.
June 2000: Oracle9i Application Server released with support for building portals.
2001: Ellison announces that Oracle saved $1 billion implementing and using its own business applications
2004: Oracle 10g released.
December 13, 2004: After a long battle over the control of PeopleSoft, Oracle announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire PeopleSoft for $26.50 per share (approximately $10.3 billion).
January 14, 2005: Oracle Corporation announces that it will reduce its combined workforce to 50,000, a reduction of approximately 5,000 following the take-over of PeopleSoft. Oracle Corporation plans to retain 90% of PeopleSoft product-development and product-support staff.
March, 2005: Oracle Corporation extends its operations in the Middle East by opening a regional office in Amman, Jordan.
September 2005: Oracle Corporation announces that it has agreed to acquire the private company Global Logistics Technologies, Inc., a global provider of logistics and transportation managements software (TMS) solutions, through a cash offer.
September 12, 2005: Oracle Corporation announces its purchase of Siebel Systems, a producer of customer relationship management (CRM) technologies and an important provider of business intelligence software, for $5.8 billion.
April 12, 2006: Oracle Corporation announces that it has agreed to acquire Portal Software, Inc. (OTC BB: PRSF.PK), a global provider of billing- and revenue-management solutions for the communications and media industry, through a cash tender offer for $4.90 per share, or approximately $220 million.
October 25, 2006: Oracle Corporation announces Unbreakable Linux
November 2, 2006: Oracle Corporation announces that it has agreed to acquire Stellent, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEL), a global provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software solutions, through a cash tender offer for $13.50 per share, or approximately $440 million.
December 15, 2006, a majority of MetaSolv stockholders approved Oracle's acquisition of MetaSolv Software, a provider of operations support systems (OSS) software for the communications industry.
2007: Oracle releases oracle 11'g' version.
March 1, 2007: Oracle announces that it has agreed to buy Hyperion Solutions Corporation (Nasdaq: HYSL), a global provider of performance-management software solutions, through a cash tender offer for $52.00 per share, or approximately $3.3 billion. The acquisition officially ended on July 1, 2007.
March 22, 2007: Oracle files a court case against a major competitor, SAP AG, in the Californian courts for malpractice and unfair competition. See Oracle documentation^[5] on the case.
October 12, 2007: Oracle announces that it has made a bid to buy BEA Systems for a price of $17 per share, an offer rejected by the BEA board, which felt that it undervalued their company
October 16, 2007: Oracle confirms the impending departure of John Wookey, senior vice president for application development and head of its applications strategy, raising questions concerning the planned release and future of Oracle's Fusion Applications strategy.
January 16, 2008: Oracle announces it will buy BEA Systems for $19.375 per share in cash for a total of "$7.2 billion net of cash".^[6]
September 24, 2008: Oracle announces it will sell servers and storage, a co-developed and co-branded data warehouse appliance named the HP Oracle Database Machine.^[7]

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