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{{short description|American multinational computer corporation}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Oracle Corporation
| logo = Oracle logo.svg
| image = 
| image_caption = Headquarters in {{wipe|Austin, Texas}}
| type = [[Finance:Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{unbulleted list|{{NYSE|ORCL}}|S&P 100 component|S&P 500 component}}
| ISIN = {{ISIN|sl=n|pl=y|US68389X1054}}
| predecessor = 
| industry = {{ubl|[[Software:Enterprise software|Enterprise software]]|[[Business software]]|[[Cloud computing]]|[[Computer hardware]]|Consulting }}
| founders = {{ubl|Larry Ellison|Bob Miner|Ed Oates<ref name="founders" />}}
| founded = {{Start date and age|1977|06|16}} in Santa Clara, California<ref name="incorporation">[http://www.oracle.com/corporate/investor_relations/faq.html Oracle, FAQ]; [http://www.orafaq.com/faqora.htm#WHO orafaq.com].</ref>
| location_city = {{wipe|Austin, Texas}}
| location_country = United States
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = {{ubl|Larry Ellison (Executive Chairman & [[Engineering:Chief technology officer|CTO]])|Jeff Henley (Vice Chairman)|Safra Catz ([[Company:CEO|CEO]]) }}
| products = {{hlist| [[Social:Oracle Applications|Oracle Applications]] | [[Software:Oracle Database|Oracle Database]] | [[Software:Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning|Oracle ERP]] | [[Software:Oracle Cloud|Oracle Cloud]] | [[Oracle Enterprise Manager|Enterprise Manager]] | [[Oracle Fusion Middleware|Fusion Middleware]] | ('''Full List''')}}
| revenue = {{Increase}} {{USD|49.95 billion|link=yes}} (2023)
| operating_income = {{Increase}} {{USD|13.09 billion}} (2023)
| net_income = {{Increase}} {{USD|8.503 billion}} (2023)
| assets = {{Increase}} {{USD|134.4 billion}} (2023)
| equity = {{Increase}} {{USD|1.556 billion}} (2023)
| owner = Larry Ellison (42.7%)<ref name="toc162163_22">{{cite web |title=Oracle Corporation §Security ownership of certain beneficial owners and management |website=Securities and Exchange Commission |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312521282422/d162163ddef14a.htm#toc162163_22}}</ref>
| num_employees = {{circa|164,000}} (2023)
| subsid = List of Oracle subsidiaries
| website = {{URL|https://www.oracle.com/|oracle.com}}
| footnotes = Financials {{as of|2023|05|31|lc=y|df=US}}.<ref name="10K">{{cite web |date=2023-06-20 |title=Oracle Corporation 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2023 |url=https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000095017023028914/orcl-20230531.htm |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission}}</ref>
}}
[[File:Larry Elllison on stage.jpg|thumbnail|Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle]]

'''Oracle Corporation''' is an American [[Finance:Multinational corporation|multinational]] computer [[Finance:Technology company|technology company]] headquartered in {{wipe|Austin, Texas}}, United States.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bursztynsky |first=Jessica |date=2020-12-11 |title=Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/11/oracle-is-moving-its-headquarters-from-silicon-valley-to-austin-texas.html |access-date=2020-12-12 |website=CNBC |language=en}}</ref> In 2020, Oracle was the [[Company:List of the largest software companies|third-largest software company]] in the world by revenue and market capitalization.<ref>{{cite web |title=The World's Biggest Public Companies, Software/Programming |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/global2000/ |access-date=2020-01-14 |website=Forbes}}</ref> The company sells [[Database|database software]] (particularly [[Software:Oracle Database|the Oracle Database]]) and [[Cloud computing|cloud computing]]. Oracle's core application software is a suite of [[Software:Enterprise software|enterprise software]] products, such as [[Enterprise resource planning|enterprise resource planning]] (ERP) software, human capital management (HCM) software, [[Social:Customer relationship management|customer relationship management]] (CRM) software, [[Social:Enterprise performance management|enterprise performance management]] (EPM) software, and [[Social:Supply chain management|supply chain management]] (SCM) software.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vickers |first=Marques |title=The Architectural Elevation of Technology: A Photo Survey of 75 Silicon Valley Headquarters |publisher=Marquis Publishing |year=2016 |page=97}}</ref>

==History==
Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name '''Software Development Laboratories''' ('''SDL''').<ref name="founders">{{Cite news |last=Bort |first=Julie |date=September 18, 2014 |title=Where Are They Now? Look What Happened to the Co-founders of Oracle |work=Business Insider |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/whatever-happened-to-oracles-founders-in-this-iconic-photo-2012-8 |access-date=March 29, 2018}}</ref> Ellison took inspiration<ref>{{cite web |date=May 2007 |title=Oracle's 30th Anniversary |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/profit/p27anniv-timeline-151918.pdf |access-date=July 16, 2010 |website=Profit |publisher=Oracle Corporation |page=26}}</ref> from the 1970 paper written by [[Biography:Edgar F. Codd|Edgar F. Codd]] on relational database management systems ([[Software:Relational database management system|RDBMS]]) named "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Codd |first=E. F. |year=1970 |title=A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks |journal=[[Communications of the ACM]] |volume=13 |issue=6 |pages=377–387 |doi=10.1145/362384.362685 |s2cid=207549016 |df=mdy-all|doi-access=free }}</ref> He heard about the [[Software:IBM System R|IBM System R]] database from an article in the ''IBM Research Journal'' provided <!-- to whom or to what? -->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,<ref name="niemiec">{{Cite book |last=Niemiec |first=Richard |title=Oracle9i Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques |publisher=McGraw-Hill/Osborne |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-07-222473-3 |location=New York}}</ref> then again to '''Oracle Systems Corporation''' in 1983,<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle Corporation - Oracle FAQ |url=https://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Oracle_Corporation |access-date=2020-03-07 |website=www.orafaq.com}}</ref> to align itself more closely with its flagship product [[Software:Oracle Database|Oracle Database]]. The name also drew from the 1977 CIA project codename, which was also Oracle's first customer.<ref>{{cite web |title=Larry Ellison's Oracle Started As a CIA Project |url=https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238 |access-date=2021-12-03 |website=gizmodo.com/|date=September 19, 2014 }}</ref> At this stage, Bob Miner served as the company's senior programmer. On March 12, 1986, the company had its [[Finance:Initial public offering|initial public offering]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Investor Relations |work=investor.oracle.com |url=http://investor.oracle.com/overview/investor-faq/default.aspx |access-date=August 10, 2017}}</ref>

In 1989, Oracle moved its world headquarters to the Redwood Shores neighborhood of Redwood City, California, though its campus was not completed until 1995.<ref name="Cerny_Page_164">{{cite book |last1=Cerny |first1=Susan Dinkelspiel |title=An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area |date=2007 |publisher=Gibbs Smith |location=Salt Lake City |isbn=978-1-58685-432-4 |page=164 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkVQx6MWa8MC&pg=PA164 |access-date=February 13, 2023}}</ref>

In 1995, Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to '''Oracle Corporation''',<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Oracle Systems Corporation Renamed 'Oracle Corporation' |date=June 1, 1995 |publisher=Oracle Corporation |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ORACLE+SYSTEMS+CORPORATION+RENAMED+%27ORACLE+CORPORATION%27-a016988727 |access-date=April 17, 2015 |archive-date=March 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315125902/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ORACLE+SYSTEMS+CORPORATION+RENAMED+%27ORACLE+CORPORATION%27-a016988727 }}</ref> officially named Oracle, but is sometimes referred to as Oracle Corporation, the name of the holding company.<ref>[http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/investor-relations/faq/index.html Frequently Asked Questions | Investor Relations]. Oracle. Retrieved July 14, 2013.</ref>

Oracle acquired the following technology companies:
# PeopleSoft (2005), an [[Enterprise resource planning|ERP]] company
# Siebel (2006), a [[Social:Customer relationship management|CRM]] company
# [[Company:BEA Systems|BEA Systems]] (2008), an enterprise infrastructure software company
# [[Company:Sun Microsystems|Sun Microsystems]] (2010), a computer hardware and software company (noted for its [[Java (programming language)|Java programming language]]).

On July 15, 2013, Oracle transferred its stock listing from the Nasdaq to the NYSE. At the time, it was the largest-ever U.S. market transfer.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCrank |first=John |date=June 20, 2013 |title=Oracle to move listing to Big Board from Nasdaq in coup for NYSE |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-nyse/oracle-to-move-listing-to-big-board-from-nasdaq-in-coup-for-nyse-idINBRE95J19O20130620 |access-date=February 9, 2023 |website=Reuters |language=en}}</ref>

In an effort to compete with [[Company:Amazon Web Services|Amazon Web Services]] and its products, Oracle announced in 2019 it was partnering with former rival [[Company:Microsoft|Microsoft]]. The alliance called that [[Software:Oracle Cloud|Oracle Cloud]] and [[Software:Microsoft Azure|Microsoft Azure]] would be directly connected, allowing customers of each to store data on both [[Cloud computing|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 with [[Company:Google|Google]] and [[Company:Salesforce|Salesforce]], which acquired [[Company:Looker|Looker]] and [[Company:Tableau Software|Tableau Software]], respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Duffy |first=Clare |date=2019-06-13 |title=Why rivals Microsoft and Oracle are teaming up to take on Amazon {{!}} CNN Business |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/13/tech/microsoft-oracle-amazon-cloud/index.html |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref>

On December 11, 2020, Oracle announced that it was moving its world headquarters from Redwood Shores to Austin, Texas.<ref name="Li">{{cite news |last1=Li |first1=Roland |title=Oracle to move headquarters from California to Austin, in latest loss for Silicon Valley |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Oracle-to-move-headquarters-from-Redwood-City-to-15795539.php |access-date=February 13, 2023 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=December 11, 2020}}</ref>

On December 20, 2021, Oracle announced the acquisition of [[Company:Cerner|Cerner]], a [[Company:Health information technology|health information technology]] company.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lohr |first=Steve |date=20 December 2021 |title=Oracle takes a big move toward health with a deal to buy Cerner for $28.3 billion. |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/technology/oracle-cerner-health-records.html |url-access=limited |access-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/technology/oracle-cerner-health-records.html |archive-date=2021-12-28}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The next day, on December 21, Oracle made public the acquisition of [https://www.federos.com/ Federos], an AI and automation tools company for network performance.<ref>{{Cite news |date=21 December 2021 |title=Oracle buys Federos. |work=Oracle Corporation |url=https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/federos/ |access-date=21 December 2021}}</ref> The acquisition of Cerner was completed on June 8, 2022, for $28.3 billion in cash.<ref>{{cite web |last=Headlee |first=Peyton |date=2022-06-07 |title=Oracle finalizes deal to buy Cerner for $28.3 billion |url=https://www.kmbc.com/article/oracle-finalizes-deal-buy-cerner-28-billion/40219678 |access-date=2022-06-08 |website=KMBC |language=en}}</ref> On March 31, 2020, Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire LiveData Utilities. The acquisition extends Oracle Utilities' Network Management System by adding a long-standing partner that provides leading operational technology (OT) middleware solutions and SCADA capabilities to monitor and control utility equipment while reducing the complexity of real-time systems. In October 2022, Oracle completed the acquisition of certain assets of Smartvid.io, Inc. (d/b/a Newmetrix). The acquisition included specific intellectual property underlying Newmetrix's AI-enabled construction safety product suite, which Oracle intends to incorporate into its Construction Intelligence Cloud. On May 16, 2018, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire DataScience.com.

On August 23, 2022, [[Company:Oracle Corporation#tracking class action|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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Class-Action Lawsuit Accuses Oracle of Tracking 5 Billion People |url=https://www.pcmag.com/news/oracle-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-tracking-5-billion-people |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=PCMAG |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Oracle Earns Billions Illegally Selling Net User Data, Suit Says - Law360 |url=https://www.law360.com/articles/1523379/oracle-earns-billions-illegally-selling-net-user-data-suit-says |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=www.law360.com |language=en}}</ref>

In February 2023, the company announced it was going to invest $1.5 billion into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a part of the ongoing tech investment in the country. As a part of the investment, Oracle will be opening a data centre in the country's capital, [[Place:Riyadh|Riyadh]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Mukherjee |first1=Supantha |last2=Yaakoubi |first2=Aziz El |date=2023-02-06 |title=Oracle to invest $1.5 billion in Saudi Arabia, open data centre in Riyadh |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/oracle-invest-15-bln-saudi-arabia-open-data-centre-riyadh-2023-02-06/ |access-date=2023-02-06}}</ref>

==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.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Radhakrishna |first1=Kishor |title=Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.4 Installation and Upgrade on IBM Power S824 |last2=Shanmugam |first2=Ravisankar |date=2015 |publisher=IBM Redbooks |isbn=978-0-7384-5454-2 |edition=1 |page=7 |chapter=1.4 Additional documentation |quote=Oracle software and documentation can be downloaded from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud website at: edelivery.oracle.com/ You need to have a valid license agreement with Oracle Corporation to download any software from the Oracle E-Delivery location. |access-date=July 31, 2016 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BLjKCgAAQBAJ}}</ref>

====Databases====
* [[Software:Oracle Database|Oracle Database]]
** Release 10: In 2004, Oracle Corporation shipped release 10''g'' (''g'' standing for "grid") as the then latest version of [[Software:Oracle Database|Oracle Database]]. ([[Software:Oracle Application Server|Oracle Application Server]] 10''g'' using Java EE integrated with the server part of that version of the database, making it possible to deploy [[World Wide Web|web]]-technology applications. The application server was the first middle-tier software designed for [[Grid computing|grid computing]]. The interrelationship between [[Grid computing|Oracle]] 10''g'' and [[Java (programming language)|Java]] allowed developers to set up [[Stored procedure|stored procedure]]s written in the Java language, as well as, those written in the traditional Oracle database programming language, PL/SQL.){{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}
** 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Top 60 Licensing Pitfalls For Oracle Databases And Oracle Technology Products |url=http://omtco.eu/references/oracle/top-60-licensing-pitfalls-for-oracle-databases-and-oracle-technology-products/ |access-date=April 21, 2013 |publisher=OMT-CO Operations Management Technology Consulting GmbH}}</ref> 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 12''c'' (''c'' standing for "cloud") became available on July 1, 2013.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Database 12c, the First Database Designed for the Cloud |date=July 1, 2013 |publisher=Oracle Corporation |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1967380 |access-date=July 1, 2013}}</ref>

Oracle Corporation has acquired and developed the following additional database technologies:
* [[Software:Berkeley DB|Berkeley DB]], which offers [[Software:Embedded database|embedded database]] processing
* [[Software:Oracle Rdb|Oracle Rdb]], a relational database system running on [[Software:OpenVMS|OpenVMS]] platforms. Oracle acquired Rdb in 1994 from [[Company:Digital Equipment Corporation|Digital Equipment Corporation]]. Oracle has since made many enhancements to this product and development continues {{as of|2008| lc = on}}.
* [[Software:TimesTen|TimesTen]], which features in-memory database operations
* [[Software:Essbase|Oracle Essbase]], which continues the [[Company:Hyperion Solutions|Hyperion]] Essbase tradition of multi-dimensional database management
* [[Software:MySQL|MySQL]], a relational database management system licensed under the [[Software:GNU General Public License|GNU General Public License]], initially developed by [[Company:MySQL AB|MySQL AB]]
* [[Software:Oracle NoSQL Database|Oracle NoSQL Database]], a scalable, distributed key-value [[NoSQL]] database<ref>{{cite web |last=Taft |first=Darryl K |date=October 18, 2011 |title=Oracle to Boost Data Management With Endeca Buy |url=http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Oracle-to-Boost-Data-Management-With-Endeca-Buy-517167/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122150710/http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Oracle-to-Boost-Data-Management-With-Endeca-Buy-517167/ |archive-date=January 22, 2013 |access-date=November 3, 2011 |website=eWeek |publisher=Ziff Davis |quote=Oracle also announced the Oracle NoSQL Database, a distributed, highly scalable, key-value database. }}</ref>

====Middleware====
{{Main|Oracle Fusion Middleware}}
Oracle Fusion Middleware is a family of [[Middleware|middleware]] software products, including (for instance) [[Application server|application server]], [[System integration|system integration]], [[Business process management|business process management]] (BPM), user interaction, [[Content management|content management]], [[Identity management|identity management]] and [[Business intelligence|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, [[Social:Customer relationship management|customer relationship management]] systems, [[Business intelligence|business intelligence]] systems, and databases.

=====Oracle Beehive=====
{{Main|Software:Oracle Beehive}}

Released in 2008, the [[Software:Oracle Beehive|Oracle Beehive]] collaboration software provides team workspaces (including [[Wiki|wiki]]s, 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|software as a service]] ("SaaS").<ref>{{cite web |last=Lai |first=Eric |date=May 4, 2009 |title=Oracle aims at Microsoft with upgraded Beehive collaboration |url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132500&intsrc=news_ts_head |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070302144543/http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic |archive-date=March 2, 2007 |access-date=May 15, 2009 |website=Computerworld |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

====Applications====
Following a number of acquisitions beginning in 2003, especially in the area of applications, Oracle Corporation {{as of|2008|lc=on}} maintains a number of product lines:

* Oracle E-Business Suite
* [[Company:PeopleSoft|PeopleSoft Enterprise]]
** PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne (Later renamed, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne)
** PeopleSoft World (Later renamed, JD Edwards World)
* [[Company:Siebel Systems|Siebel]]
* [[Company:JD Edwards|JD Edwards]]
* Merchandise Operations Management (Formerly Retek)
* Planning & Optimisation 
* Store Operations (Formerly 360Commerce)

Development of applications commonly takes place in Java (using Oracle JDeveloper) or through PL/SQL (using, for example, [[Software:Oracle Forms|Oracle Forms]] and Oracle Reports/BIPublisher).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Working with Extensions to Oracle Enterprise Scheduler - 11g Release 7 (11.1.7) |url=https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36909_01/fusionapps.1111/e15524/soa_ess.htm |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=docs.oracle.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Help center |first=Oracle |title=Application Development |url=https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28415/ch_websrvtier.htm |website=Oracle}}</ref> Oracle Corporation has started<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler User's Guide |url=https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/sql-developer-data-modeler/18.2/dmdug/data-modeler-concepts-usage.html |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=Oracle Help Center |language=en-us}}</ref> 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|database]] applications for archiving, splitting and control, [[Enterprise resource planning|ERP]] and [[Social:Customer relationship management|CRM]] systems, as well as more niche and focused products providing a range of commercial functions in areas like [[Social:Human resources|human resources]], financial control and [[Software:Governance, risk management, and compliance|governance, risk management, and compliance]] (GRC). Vendors include [[Company:Hewlett-Packard|Hewlett-Packard]], Creoal Consulting, UC4 Software,<ref>{{cite web |title=uc4.html |url=http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/modernization/uc4-084231.html |access-date=2018-05-11 |website=www.oracle.com}}</ref> [[Company:Motus, LLC|Motus]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Motus Integration - Motus - Oracle Cloud Marketplace |url=https://cloud.oracle.com/marketplace/listing/4569590?_afrLoop=25814755102234761&_afrWindowMode=0&_afrWindowId=null |access-date=February 2, 2017 |website=cloud.oracle.com/marketplace |language=en-US}}</ref> and Knoa Software.<ref>{{cite web |title=Knoa Experience and Performance Manager (EPM) for Oracle Siebel CRM |url=https://solutions.oracle.com/scwar/sc/Solution/SCSP-HBYOJOJN.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018025937/https://solutions.oracle.com/scwar/sc/Solution/SCSP-HBYOJOJN.html |archive-date=October 18, 2013 |publisher=Oracle Corporation}}</ref>

====Enterprise management====
{{Main|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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Jackson |first=Joab |date=July 2, 2013 |title=Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c gears up for the private cloud |url=http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/oracle-enterprise-manager-12c-gears-the-private-cloud-221976 |access-date=March 12, 2014 |website=InfoWorld}}</ref>

The [[Software:Primavera|Primavera]] products of Oracle's Construction & Engineering Global Business Unit (CEGBU) consist of [[Project management|project-management]] software.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harris |first=Paul Eastwood |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ep50AO-B06oC |title=Project Planning and Scheduling Using Primavera P6: For All Industries Including Version 4 to 7 ; Planning and Progressing Project Schedules with and Without Roles and Resources in an Established Enterprise Environment |date=2010 |publisher=Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd |isbn=978-1-921059-34-6 |pages=2–1 |quote=Primavera is an Enterprise Project Management software package that enables many projects to be managed in one database. |access-date=April 29, 2015}}</ref>

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

* [[Software:Oracle Designer|Oracle Designer]] – a [[Computer-aided software engineering|CASE]] tool which integrates with Oracle Developer Suite
* [[Software:Oracle Developer Suite|Oracle Developer]] – which consists of [[Software:Oracle Forms|Oracle Forms]], [[Software:Oracle Discoverer|Oracle Discoverer]] and [[Software:Oracle Reports|Oracle Reports]]
* Oracle JDeveloper, a [[Freeware|freeware]] [[Integrated development environment|IDE]]
* [[Software:NetBeans|NetBeans]], a Java-based software-development platform
* [[Software:Oracle Application Express|Oracle Application Express]] – also known as APEX; for web-oriented development
* [[Software:Oracle SQL Developer|Oracle SQL Developer]], an [[Integrated development environment|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 [[Software:Eclipse|Eclipse]]
* Open Java Development Kit
* Oracle Developer Studio – a software generation system for the development of C, C++, Fortran, and Java software
* Oracle Visual Builder Studio
Many external and third-party tools make the Oracle [[Database administrator|database administrator]]'s tasks easier.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Concepts for Database Administrators - 11g Release 2 (11.2) |url=https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E25054_01/server.1111/e25789/cncptdba.htm |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=docs.oracle.com}}</ref>

==== File systems ====
* [[ZFS]] combines file-system and [[Logical volume management|logical volume management]] functionality.
* BtrFS "B-tree File-System" is meant to be an improvement over the existing [[Software:Linux|Linux]] [[Ext4|ext4]] filesystem, and offer features approaching those of [[ZFS]].

====Operating systems====
Oracle Corporation develops and supports two operating systems: [[Software:Oracle Solaris|Oracle Solaris]] and [[Software:Oracle Linux|Oracle Linux]].

===Hardware===
[[File:OracleExadataExalogic.JPG|thumb|Oracle Exadata and Exalogic]]
* The Sun hardware range acquired by Oracle Corporation's purchase of [[Company:Sun Microsystems|Sun Microsystems]]
* Oracle SPARC T-series servers and M-series [[Mainframe computer|mainframes]] developed and released after Sun acquisition
* Engineered systems: pre-engineered and pre-assembled hardware/software bundles for enterprise use
** [[Software:Oracle Exadata|Exadata Database Machine]] – hardware/software integrated storage<ref>{{cite web |last=Grancher |first=Eric |date=May 15, 2009 |title=Oracle and storage IOs, explanations and experience at CERN |url=http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1177416/files/CHEP2009-28-24.pdf?version=2 |access-date=January 17, 2010 |website=CERN-IT-Note-2009-005 |publisher=CERN |location=Geneva |page=4 |format=PDF |quote=The Oracle Exadata storage server version 1 is a solution developed by Oracle and HP in which part of the processing, normally performed by the database instance, is performed at the storage system level.}}</ref>
** [[Software:Oracle Exalogic|Exalogic Elastic Cloud]] – hardware/software integrated application server
** Exalytics In-Memory Machine – hardware/software integrated in-memory analytics server<ref>{{Cite news |last=King |first=Rachel |date=July 15, 2013 |title=Oracle Exalytics in-memory machine updated to analyze larger data sets |work=ZDNet |url=http://www.zdnet.com/oracle-exalytics-in-memory-machine-updated-to-analyze-larger-data-sets-7000018004/ |access-date=March 12, 2014}}</ref>
** Oracle Database Appliance<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vijayan |first=Jaikumar |date=September 22, 2011 |title=New Oracle database appliance aims at small, mid-size firms: Analysts don't expect Database Appliance to cannibalize Oracle's Exadata enterprise offering |work=Computerworld |url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220217/New_Oracle_database_appliance_aims_at_small_mid_size_firms |access-date=January 8, 2012 |quote=The tightly integrated hardware, software and storage bundle features Oracle Database11g Release 2 and Real Application Clusters software running on a 2-node, 24-processor core, Sun Fire server cluster hardware.}}</ref>
** [[Finance:Oracle Big Data Appliance|Big Data Appliance]] – integrated map-reduce/[[Big data|big data]] solution<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Oracle Unveils the Oracle Big Data Appliance |date=October 3, 2011 |publisher=Oracle Corporation |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/512001 |access-date=April 17, 2015}}</ref>
** SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 – a general purpose engineered system<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Oracle Unveils the World's Fastest General Purpose Engineered System - the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 |date=September 26, 2011 |publisher=Oracle Corporation |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/497229 |access-date=February 18, 2012}}</ref>

===Services===

====Oracle Cloud====
[[Software:Oracle Cloud|Oracle Cloud]] is a [[Cloud computing|cloud computing]] service offered by Oracle Corporation providing servers, storage, network, applications and services through a global network of Oracle Corporation managed [[Data center|data center]]s. The company allows these services to be provisioned on demand over the [[Internet]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Saygili |first=Okcan Yasin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=83UpDwAAQBAJ&q=oracle%20cloud&pg=PA1 |title=Oracle IaaS: Quick Reference Guide to Cloud Solutions |publisher=Apress |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-4842-2832-6 |language=en}}</ref>

Oracle Cloud provides [[Infrastructure as a service|Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)]], [[Platform as a service|Platform as a Service (PaaS)]], [[Software as a service|Software as a Service (SaaS)]] and [[Data as a service|Data as a Service (DaaS)]]. These services are used to build, deploy, integrate and extend applications in the cloud. This platform supports [[Engineering:Open standard|open standard]]s ([[SQL]], [[HTML5]], [[Representational state transfer|REST]], etc.) open-source solutions ([[Software:Kubernetes|Kubernetes]], [[Software:Apache Hadoop|Hadoop]], [[Software:Apache Kafka|Kafka]], etc.) and a variety of [[Programming language|programming language]]s, [[Database|database]]s, tools and [[Software framework|frameworks]] including Oracle-specific, [[Free software|free]] and [[Third-party software component|third-party software]] and systems.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Safonov |first=Vladimir O. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1918CwAAQBAJ&q=oracle+cloud+paas&pg=PA59 |title=Trustworthy Cloud Computing |date=2016 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-119-11351-5 |language=en}}</ref>
* Software as a Service (SaaS)<ref name="oracle_cloud">{{cite web |title=Enterprise Cloud Computing SaaS, PaaS, IaaS |url=https://cloud.oracle.com/home |access-date=December 18, 2014 |publisher=Oracle}}</ref>
** Enterprise applications: [[Social:Supply chain management|SCM]], [[Social:Enterprise performance management|EPM]], [[Software:Oracle HCM Cloud|HCM]], [[Software:Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud|ERP]] and [[Software:Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX)|CX]] SaaS offerings<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle Applications Cloud |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/cloud/cloud-applications/index.html |access-date=March 13, 2014 |publisher=Oracle}}</ref>
**Oracle sells a SaaS suite of [[Oracle Fusion Applications]] business applications.
**On July 28, 2016, Oracle bought [[Company:NetSuite|NetSuite]], the first cloud company, for $9.3 billion.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Cao |first1=Jing |last2=Womack |first2=Brian |date=July 29, 2016 |title=Oracle Purchase of NetSuite Will Help It Vie With Cloud Rivals |publisher=Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/oracle-buys-netsuite-in-deal-valued-at-about-9-3-billion}}</ref> 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)<ref name="oracle_cloud" />
** Oracle has branded its Platform as a Service as [[Company:Oracle Cloud Platform|Oracle Cloud Platform]]. Oracle Cloud Platform include Data Management, Application Development, Integration, Content and Experience, Business Analytics, Management and Security.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Di Martino |first1=Beniamino |title=Cloud Portability and Interoperability: Issues and Current Trends |last2=Cretella |first2=Giuseppina |last3=Esposito |first3=Antonio |date=2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-13701-8 |series=SpringerBriefs in Computer Science |page=68 |chapter=4.3 Oracle PaaS |quote=The Oracle cloud platform [...] is a portfolio of products that can be used to build applications to publish as services on both private and public clouds. The platform is based on the Oracle Grid technologies, as well as on applications that include WebLogic Server, Coherence in-memory datagrid, and JRockit JVM. In terms of infrastructure, the platform is based on the Oracle IaaS offer that contains Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise linux, and Oracle VM for virtualization, Sun SPARC and Storage. |access-date=September 20, 2016 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vpmiBwAAQBAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Platform as a Service {{!}} Oracle Cloud |url=https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/paas |access-date=2017-11-15 |website=cloud.oracle.com |language=en}}</ref> 
** 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, [[Software:Node.js|Node.js]] etc.<ref>{{cite web |date=June 22, 2015 |title=Oracle (ORCL) Announces New Cloud Platform Additions |url=http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Oracle+(ORCL)+Announces+New+Cloud+Platform+Additions/10670192.html |access-date=April 15, 2016 |website=Street Insider |language=en |quote=With more than 24 new cloud services, the Oracle Cloud Platform extends Oracle's leadership with the world's broadest and deepest portfolio of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Newly available Oracle Cloud services include, Oracle Database Cloud – Exadata, Oracle Archive Storage Cloud, Oracle Big Data Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud, and Oracle Process Cloud.}}</ref>
* Data as a Service (DaaS)
** Oracle Data Cloud is composed of several acquisitions including AddThis, [[Company:BlueKai|BlueKai]], Crosswise, [[Company:Datalogix|Datalogix]], Grapeshot, and Moat.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle Data Cloud |url=https://www.oracle.com/data-cloud/}}</ref>
* Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)<ref name="oracle_cloud" /> 
** Oracle has branded its Infrastructure as a Service as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offerings include the following services.<ref>{{cite web |title=Infrastructure as a Service {{!}} Oracle Cloud |url=https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/iaas |access-date=2017-11-16 |website=cloud.oracle.com |language=en}}</ref>
*** 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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-05-16 |title=Oracle acquires machine learning platform Datascience.com |language=en-US |work=VentureBeat |url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/16/oracle-acquires-machine-learning-platform-datascience-com/ |access-date=2018-05-24}}</ref>

====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.<ref>{{cite web |date=April 1, 2008 |title=Global Customer Support Security Practices |url=http://www.oracle.com/support/collateral/customer-support-security-practices.pdf |access-date=August 25, 2008 |publisher=Oracle Corporation |page=1 |quote=Your registration on MetaLink uses a unique Customer Support Identifier (CSI) linked to your Support contract.}}</ref> Registered customers can submit Service Requests (SRs)<ref>{{cite web |date=April 1, 2008 |title=Global Customer Support Security Practices |url=http://www.oracle.com/support/collateral/customer-support-security-practices.pdf |access-date=August 25, 2008 |publisher=Oracle Corporation |page=1 |quote=GCS is a global operation, with Service Request (SR) management based on global competencies}}</ref>—usually via the web-accessible My Oracle Support<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Oracle Introduces Next-generation Customer Support Platform: My Oracle Support |date=September 22, 2008 |publisher=Oracle Corporation |location=California |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/017506_EN.doc |quote=My Oracle Support integrates Oracle's [...] support portal, Oracle MetaLink, with its [...] configuration management platform, Oracle Software Configuration Manager, to deliver [..] support capabilities |access-date=September 25, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002200418/http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/017506_EN.doc |archive-date=October 2, 2008}}</ref> (MOS),<ref>
{{Cite book |last1=Prusinski |first1=Ben |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH3vrKvDSOMC |title=Expert Oracle GoldenGate |last2=Phillips |first2=Steve |last3=Chung |first3=Richard |publisher=Apress |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-4302-3566-8 |series=Apresspod Series |pages=111–112 |quote=You can verify the [...] supported [...] platforms [...] by logging into the My Oracle Support (MOS) site online at <code>http://support.oracle.com</code> [...] |access-date=July 24, 2012}}
</ref> a re-incarnation of Oracle Metalink<ref>Compare:
{{Cite book |last=Jeffries |first=John P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nTdECgAAQBAJ |title=Oracle GoldenGate 12c Implementer's Guide |publisher=Packt Publishing Ltd |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-78398-077-2 |edition=2 |location=Birmingham |publication-date=2015 |page=22 |quote=The full comprehensive list of all the certified platforms and databases is available at the My Oracle Support website: support.oracle.com (formerly Metalink). |access-date=August 24, 2017}}</ref> with web access administered by a site Customer User Administrator (CUA).<ref>{{cite web |year=2017 |title=My Oracle Support Help, Release 15.3 |url=https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E25290_01/doc.60/e25224/registration.htm |access-date=August 24, 2017 |website=docs.oracle.com |publisher=Oracle |quote=My Oracle Support customer user accounts are managed by individuals within your organization in the role of Customer User Administrator (CUA).}}</ref>
** Critical Patch Updates: since 2005 Oracle Corporation has grouped collections of [[Patch (computing)|patch]]es and security fixes for its products each quarter into a "Critical Patch Update" (CPU), released each January, April, July and October.<ref>{{cite web |title=Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts |url=http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061028105653/http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm |archive-date=October 28, 2006 |publisher=Oracle Corporation}}</ref>
** Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM, previously Customer Configuration repository or CCR) gathers and uploads details of the configuration of Oracle software.<ref>{{cite web |last=Douglas |first=Williams |display-authors=0 |date=November 2010 |title=Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide, 11g Release 2 (11.2) for Linux and UNIX |url=http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e17214.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116235136/http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e17214.pdf |archive-date=November 16, 2010 |access-date=November 22, 2010 |publisher=Oracle Corporation |page=xxi |quote=Oracle Configuration Manager: This feature [...] was previously named Customer Configuration repository (CCR). It is an optional component for database and client installations. Oracle Configuration Manager gathers and stores details relating to the configuration of the software stored in database Oracle home directories. |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
** Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR) automatically creates Service Requests for specific hardware faults on qualified Oracle server, storage, [[Software:Oracle Exadata|Oracle Exadata]], and [[Software:Oracle Exalogic|Oracle Exalogic]] products.<ref>{{cite web |date=April 2011 |title=Oracle Auto Service Request for Sun Systems |url=http://oracle.com/asr |publisher=Oracle Corporation |quote=Oracle Auto Service Request for Sun Systems.}}</ref>
** My Oracle Support Community (MOSC)<ref>{{cite web |title=Themes – Oracle Community |url=https://community.oracle.com/select-theme!input.jspa |url-access=registration |access-date=August 10, 2014 |publisher=Oracle Corporation |quote=My Oracle Support Community (MOSC)}}</ref>
* Oracle University (training in Oracle products)<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle University |url=http://education.oracle.com |publisher=Oracle Corporation}}</ref>
** [[Social:Oracle Certification Program|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.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Oracle NetSuite Expands Pro Bono Tech Help |language=en-US |work=The NonProfit Times |url=http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/technology/oracle-netsuite-expands-pro-bono-tech-help/ |access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> 
* As of September 13, 2020, Oracle acquired a trade deal with the ByteDance owned social video platform [[Software:TikTok|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.<ref>{{Cite news |author=Echo Wang |author2=Greg Roumeliotis |date=2020-09-14 |title=ByteDance drops TikTok's U.S. sale, to partner with Oracle - sources |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-china-bytedance-tiktok-oracle-idUKKBN265002 |access-date=2020-09-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Brian Fung and Rob McLean |title=TikTok will partner with Oracle in the United States after Microsoft loses bid |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/13/tech/microsoft-tiktok-bytedance/index.html |access-date=2020-09-14 |website=CNN}}</ref>

==Marketing==

===Sales practices===
In 1990, Oracle laid off 10% (about 400 people) of its work force because of accounting errors.<ref name="zdnet200620" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Abelson |first=Ree |date=June 23, 1996 |title=Truth or Consequences? Hardly |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/23/business/truth-or-consequences-hardly.html}}</ref> 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".<ref name="zdnet200620">[http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39048963,00.htm Oracle cuts rewards for last-minute deals ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219065933/http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39048963,00.htm |date=December 19, 2008 }} Gilbert, Alorie (June 20, 2002). ''CNET News.com'' via zdnetasia.com</ref>

===Competition===
In 1994, Informix overtook [[Company:Sybase|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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Galante |first=Suzanne |date=June 9, 1997 |title=Informix drops Oracle lawsuit |url=http://news.cnet.com/Informix-drops-Oracle-lawsuit/2100-1023_3-200353.html |website=CNET}}</ref> 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 the use of [[Software:Microsoft SQL Server|Microsoft SQL Server]] became widespread in the late 1990s and IBM acquired Informix Software in 2001 (to complement its Db2 database). {{As of|2008|alt= 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 {{As of|2008|alt= still}} dominates the mainframe database market.

In 2004, Oracle's sales grew at a rate of 14.5% to $6.2&nbsp;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.<ref name="Oracle.com">{{cite web |date=September 7, 2010 |title=Infrastructure &#124; Oracle Analyst Reports |url=http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/infrastructure/dbms/idc-201692.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081031164300/http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/infrastructure/dbms/idc-201692.pdf |archive-date=October 31, 2008 |access-date=July 7, 2011 |publisher=Oracle.com}}</ref>
Oracle Corporation's main competitors in the database arena remain [[Software:IBM Db2|IBM Db2]] and [[Software:Microsoft SQL Server|Microsoft SQL Server]], and to a lesser extent [[Company:Sybase|Sybase]] and [[Company:Teradata|Teradata]],<ref name="Oracle.com" /> with [[Free software|free]] databases such as [[Software:PostgreSQL|PostgreSQL]] and [[Software:MySQL|MySQL]] also having a significant<ref>[http://db-engines.com/en/ranking DB-Engines Ranking - popularity ranking of database management systems]. Db-engines. Retrieved July 14, 2013.</ref> share of the market. [[Company:EnterpriseDB|EnterpriseDB]], based on PostgreSQL, has {{As of|2008|alt= recently}} made inroads<ref>{{cite web |last=Lai |first=Eric |date=November 20, 2006 |title=Vonage places call for EnterpriseDB database |url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=networking&articleId=9005227&taxonomyId=16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527080045/http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=networking&articleId=9005227&taxonomyId=16 |archive-date=May 27, 2007 |website=Computerworld |df=mdy-all}}</ref> by proclaiming that its product delivers Oracle compatibility features{{Clarify|date=February 2009}} at a much lower price-point.

In the software-applications market, Oracle Corporation primarily<ref>{{cite web |last=Pang |first=Albert |date=2021-12-24 |title=Top 10 ERP Software Vendors, Market Size and Market Forecast 2020-2025 |url=https://www.appsruntheworld.com/top-10-erp-software-vendors-and-market-forecast/ |access-date=2022-07-11 |website=Apps Run The World |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Pang |first=Albert |date=2021-12-24 |title=Top 10 Utilities Software Vendors, Market Size and Market Forecast 2020-2025 |url=https://www.appsruntheworld.com/top-10-utilities-software-vendors-and-market-forecast/ |access-date=2022-07-11 |website=Apps Run The World |language=en-US}}</ref> competes against SAP. On March 22, 2007, Oracle sued SAP, accusing them of fraud and unfair competition.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Gullo |first1=Karen |last2=Guglielmo |first2=Connie |name-list-style=amp |date=March 22, 2007 |title=Oracle Claims Rival SAP Stole Software and Data (Update4) |work=[[Company:Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]] |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=atMLL7_FAEkw |access-date=March 22, 2007}}</ref>

In the market for [[Business intelligence|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 [[Company:Hyperion Solutions|Hyperion Solutions]]), and the independent "pure play" vendors such as [[Software:MicroStrategy|MicroStrategy]], [[Company:Actuate Corporation|Actuate]], and SAS.<ref>{{cite web |last=Pendse |first=Nigel |date=March 7, 2008 |title=Consolidations in the BI industry |url=http://www.bi-verdict.com/fileadmin/FreeAnalyses/consolidations.htm |website=The OLAP Report}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Best Donation Management Software - 2015 Reviews of the Most Popular Systems |url=http://nonprofit-software.com/ |access-date=April 17, 2015}}</ref>

====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 [[Software:Microsoft SQL Server|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle – the No.1 Database for Deploying SAP Applications |url=http://www.oracle.com/newsletters/sap/index.html |access-date=November 11, 2008 |publisher=Oracle Corporation |quote=Two thirds of SAP customers around the world, in every industry, choose to run their applications on Oracle databases.}}</ref>

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 [[Company:PeopleSoft|PeopleSoft]], [[Company:Siebel Systems|Siebel Systems]] and [[Company:Hyperion Solutions|Hyperion]].

SAP recognized that Oracle had started to become a competitor in a markets where SAP had the [[Philosophy:Leadership|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"),<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Oracle Helping SAP Customers to get 'OFF SAP' |date=June 14, 2005 |publisher=Oracle Corporation |url=http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2005_jun/sap.html}}</ref>
and also by providing special discounts on licenses and services to SAP customers who chose Oracle Corporation products.

{{As of|2008|alt=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.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 3, 2007 |title=Oracle sues SAP |url=http://www.oracle.com/sapsuit |publisher=Oracle Corporation}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gohring |first1=Nancy |last2=Montalbano |first2=Elizabeth |title=Maintenance Contracts at Heart of Oracle, SAP Dispute |url=http://www.cio.in/news/viewArticle/ARTICLEID=3017 |journal=CIO India |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080519024115/http://www.cio.in/news/viewArticle/ARTICLEID=3017 |archive-date=May 19, 2008 |access-date=June 9, 2008}}

[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenbaum/?p=105 The lawsuit As barometer: SAP finally scores big with TomorrowNow ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070327081752/http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenbaum/?p=105 |date=March 27, 2007 }} Joshua Greenbaum, March 22, 2007, ZDNet</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=steve.curtis@supportrevolution.com |date=2020-09-23 |title=Oracle & SAP are waging a secret war against third-party support |url=https://www.supportrevolution.com/oracle-sap-secret-support-war/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=Support Revolution |language=en-GB}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=SAP Responds to Oracle Complaint |date=July 3, 2007 |publisher=SAP |url=http://www.tnlawsuit.com/uploads/pdf/pressrelease/pressrelease_ResponsetoOracleComplaint.pdf |access-date=September 2, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326201734/http://www.tnlawsuit.com/uploads/pdf/pressrelease/pressrelease_ResponsetoOracleComplaint.pdf |archive-date=March 26, 2009}}</ref>

On November 23, 2010, a U.S. district court jury in Oakland, California found that SAP AG must pay Oracle Corp $1.3&nbsp;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&nbsp;million, while Oracle claimed that they are at least $1.65&nbsp;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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Levine |first=Dan |date=November 23, 2010 |title=SAP to pay Oracle $1.3&nbsp;billion in landmark decision |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AL4IN20101124 |access-date=November 23, 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 1, 2011 |title=Judge overturns Oracle's $1.3B award against SAP |url=http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/199445/bulletin-judge-overturns-oracles-13b-award-against-sap |access-date=September 5, 2011 |website=ITworld}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 3, 2012 |title=Oracle Says SAP to Pay $306 Million in Copyright Deal |work=Bloomberg BusinessWeek |url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-02/oracle-says-sap-to-pay-306-million-in-copyright-deal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803200435/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-02/oracle-says-sap-to-pay-306-million-in-copyright-deal |archive-date=August 3, 2012 |access-date=August 6, 2012}}</ref>

===Slogans===
* "Information driven"<ref>{{cite web |last=Aryal |first=Mina |date=2015-05-24 |title=Best Slogans of Information Technology Companies |url=https://ictframe.com/slogans-of-it-companies/ |access-date=2019-01-19 |website=ICT Frame Technology |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2014-06-12 |title=A List of 120+ Slogans of Information Technology Companies |url=https://advergize.com/marketing/120-list-of-slogans-from-information-technology-companies/ |access-date=2019-01-19 |website=Advergize |language=en-US}}</ref>
* For the Oracle Database: "Can't break it, can't break in"<ref>{{cite web |last=Lemos |first=Robert |date=February 6, 2002 |title=Guru says Oracle's 9i is indeed breakable |url=http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-831142.html |access-date=October 5, 2011 |publisher=CNET News}}</ref> and "Unbreakable"<ref>{{cite web |last=Davidson |first=Mary Ann |date=February 2002 |title=Unbreakable: Oracle's Commitment to Security |url=http://www.cgisecurity.com/database/oracle/pdf/unbreak3.pdf |access-date=March 21, 2010 |series=An Oracle White Paper |publisher=Oracle Corporation |location=Redwood Shores, California |page=2 |quote=Beginning in November 2001, Oracle began a marketing campaign: Unbreakable. The security portions of the campaign reference Oracle's 14 independent security evaluations [...]}}</ref>
* Enabling the Information Age<ref>{{Cite journal |date=September 15, 1997 |title=Oracle8 Database Messaging |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bQYAAAAAMBAJ&q=oracle+enabling+the+information+age&pg=PA7 |journal=CIO |volume=10 |issue=21 |page=7}}</ref>
* Enabling the Information Age Through Network Computing"<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle Discoverer User Guide |url=http://gkmc.utah.edu/ebis_class/2003s/Oracle/DISCVR31/USER/titlcpy.htm |access-date=2019-01-19 |website=gkmc.utah.edu |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806022056/http://gkmc.utah.edu/ebis_class/2003s/Oracle/DISCVR31/USER/titlcpy.htm }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hummeltenberg |first=Wilhelm |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2wjKBgAAQBAJ&q=%22Enabling+the+Information+Age+Through+Network+Computing%22&pg=PA201 |title=Information Management for Business and Competitive Intelligence and Excellence: Proceedings der Frühjahrstagung Wirtschaftsinformatik '98 |date=2013-04-09 |publisher=Springer-Verlag |isbn=978-3-322-84950-2 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Developer/2000 Guidelines for Building Applications |url=http://sqltech.cl/doc/dev2000/guide21/gd21titl.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418024953/http://sqltech.cl/doc/dev2000/guide21/gd21titl.htm |archive-date=18 April 2019 |access-date=5 August 2020}}</ref>
* {{As of| 2008 | alt = As of 2008}}: "The Information Company"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Farber |first=Dan |date=December 9, 2004 |title=Oracle joins or refashions the information age |work=ZDNet |url=http://www.zdnet.com/news/oracle-joins-or-refashions-the-information-age/140197 |access-date=October 9, 2014}}</ref>
* As of 2010: "Software. Hardware. Complete."<ref>{{cite web |last=Group |first=Yankee |date=2010-07-14 |title=Oracles introduces new 10GbE products. Software. Hardware. Complete? |url=https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2010/07/oracles-introduces-new-10gbe-products-software-hardware-complete |access-date=2019-01-19 |website=Electronic Component News |language=en |archive-date=February 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219152627/http://www.eeworldonline.com/news/2010/07/oracles-introduces-new-10gbe-products-software-hardware-complete }}</ref>
* As of late 2010: "Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together"<ref>{{cite web |date=2012-09-26 |title=Oracle Engineered Systems-The Newest Flavor of IT Systems |url=http://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Think-About-It/Oracle-Engineered-Systems-The-Newest-Flavor-of-IT-Systems-84891.aspx |access-date=2019-01-19 |website=Database Trends and Applications |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=July 17, 2014 |title=Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/assets/openworld-march2014-2245394.pdf |access-date=January 19, 2019}}</ref>
* As of mid 2015: "Integrated Cloud Applications and Platform Services"<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle Brand {{!}} Oracle Tagline Lockup |url=https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/s/brand/identity/tagline-lockup/index.html |access-date=2019-01-19 |website=www.oracle.com}}</ref>

===Media===
Oracle Corporation produces and distributes the "Oracle ClearView" series of videos as part of its marketing mix.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 7, 2009 |title=Executive Strategy Weekly Edition |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/newsletter/executive-strategy-weekly/jan-07-09-index-168912.html |access-date=September 21, 2009 |website=Oracle Information inDepth Newsletters |publisher=Oracle Corporation |quote=In the first installment of the Oracle ClearView video series, host Richard Levitt explains how Oracle Exadata—the combination of superfast HP hardware and supersmart Oracle software—is bringing powerful benefits to the enterprise.}}</ref>

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable float-left" style="text-align: right;"
|+Development since 2005<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle Net Income 2006-2018 {{!}} ORCL |url=https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ORCL/oracle/net-income |access-date=2018-10-22 |publisher=Macrotrends}}</ref>
!Year
!Revenue<br />in mil. US$
!Net Income<br />in mil. US$
!Price per Share<br />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
|-
|2023
|49,954
|8,503
|
|164,000
|}
Oracle was ranked No. 82 in the 2018 {{wipe|Fortune 500}} list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fortune 500 Companies 2018: Who Made the List |url=http://fortune.com/fortune500/list/ |access-date=2018-11-10 |website=Fortune |language=en-US |archive-date=November 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110190356/http://fortune.com/fortune500/list/ }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Oracle's $108 Million Comp for Hurd and Catz Distorts CEO Pay Ratio |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/ceo-pay-ratio/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005230822/https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/ceo-pay-ratio/ |archive-date=October 5, 2018 |access-date=2018-11-13 |website=Bloomberg |language=en-US |last1=Melin |first1=Anders}}</ref>

==Carbon footprint==
Oracle reported total carbon dioxide equivalent (CO<sub>2</sub>e) emissions (direct + indirect) for the twelve months ending December 31, 2020 at 428 kilotonnes (+63/+17% year over year)<ref name="Oracle Total CO2e emissions for 2020Q4">{{cite web |title=Oracle's ESG Datasheet for 2020Q4 |url=https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/corporate/citizenship/ccr-datasheet.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924154922/https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/corporate/citizenship/ccr-datasheet.pdf |archive-date=September 24, 2021}} [https://analytics.exerica.com/App/Name/Oracle/Total%20CO2e%20Emissions%20-%20Market-Based%20Scope%201%20%2b%20Scope%202/2020Q4/12 Alt URL]</ref> and plans to reduce emissions 26% by 2025 from a 2015 base year.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle's Sustainability Report for 2020Q4 |url=https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/corporate/citizenship/ccr2020-report.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017130255/https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/corporate/citizenship/ccr2020-report.pdf |archive-date=October 17, 2021}} [https://analytics.exerica.com/App/Name/Oracle/Climate%20Goal&#91;Climate%20Goal,Total%20CO2e%20emissions%20(Scope%201%20%2b%20Scope%202)&#93;/2020Q4 Alt URL]</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Oracle's annual total CO<sub>2</sub>e emissions - market-based scope 1 + scope 2 (in kilotonnes)
|-
! Dec 2017 !! Dec 2018 !! Dec 2019 !! Dec 2020
|-
| 418<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle's ESG Datasheet for 2019Q4 |url=https://www.oracle.com/assets/ccr-datasheet-3855392.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111124101/https://www.oracle.com/assets/ccr-datasheet-3855392.pdf |archive-date=November 11, 2021}} [https://analytics.exerica.com/App/Name/Oracle/Total%20CO2e%20Emissions%20-%20Market-Based%20Scope%201%20%2b%20Scope%202/2017Q4/12 Alt URL]</ref> || 380<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle's ESG Datasheet for 2020Q4 |url=https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/corporate/citizenship/ccr-datasheet.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924154922/https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/corporate/citizenship/ccr-datasheet.pdf |archive-date=September 24, 2021}} [https://analytics.exerica.com/App/Name/Oracle/Total%20CO2e%20Emissions%20-%20Market-Based%20Scope%201%20%2b%20Scope%202/2018Q4/12 Alt URL]</ref> || 366<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle's ESG Datasheet for 2020Q4 |url=https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/corporate/citizenship/ccr-datasheet.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924154922/https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/corporate/citizenship/ccr-datasheet.pdf |archive-date=September 24, 2021}} [https://analytics.exerica.com/App/Name/Oracle/Total%20CO2e%20Emissions%20-%20Market-Based%20Scope%201%20%2b%20Scope%202/2019Q4/12 Alt URL]</ref> || 428<ref name="Oracle Total CO2e emissions for 2020Q4" />
|}

==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.<ref>On July 3, 2007, SAP admitted that TomorrowNow employees had made "inappropriate downloads" from the Oracle support web site. 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
[https://archive.today/20120730204255/http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1580029,00.asp Oracle Rethinks Its Dumpster-Diving Ways ] April 29, 2004, Lisa Vaas, eweek.com</ref> 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 [[Organization:Association for Competitive Technology|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."<ref>[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-6447631_ITM Swing Shift Column], ''San Jose Mercury News'' (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) (December, 2000)</ref>

==="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".<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 7, 2002 |title=Bugs bust open 'unbreakable' Oracle 9i |work=ZDNet |url=http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/application-development/2002/02/07/bugs-bust-open-unbreakable-oracle-9i-2103903/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308164139/http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/application-development/2002/02/07/bugs-bust-open-unbreakable-oracle-9i-2103903/ |archive-date=March 8, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> This signified a claim of [[Information security|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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 16, 2002 |title=Oracle security claim |work=The Register |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/16/oracle_security_claim/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=February 7, 2002 |title=How to hack unbreakable Oracle |work=The Register |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/07/how_to_hack_unbreakable_oracle/}}</ref> 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<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle list of major Security certifications |url=http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/seceval/pdf/seceval_matrix.pdf |publisher=Oracle Corporation}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 10, 2006 |title=Ashcroft breaks with tradition by lobbying, has earned $269,000 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/jan/1275410.htm}}</ref>

===Expeditionary Combat Support System===
[[Company:Computer Sciences Corporation|Computer Sciences Corporation]], as the prime contractor, reportedly spent a billion dollars developing the Expeditionary Combat Support System for the {{wipe|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.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 2012 |title=How the Air Force blew $1B on a dud system |url=http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/11/fed-how-airforce-blew-one-billion-dud-112612w/ |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20130215172420/http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/11/fed-how-airforce-blew-one-billion-dud-112612w/ |archive-date=February 15, 2013 |access-date=April 17, 2015 |website={{wipe|Air Force Times}}}}</ref>

===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. [[Finance:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|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.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 7, 2014 |title=Cover Oregon: State moves to federal exchange, but Oracle technology lives on |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2014/05/cover_oregon_state_moves_to_fe.html |access-date=April 17, 2015 |website=The Oregonian}}</ref> 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 [[Engineering:Systems integrator|systems integrator]] was not hired to manage the complex project.<ref>{{cite web |date=April 17, 2014 |title=Oracle blasts Oregon for spreading Cover Oregon 'false narrative' |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2014/04/oracle_blasts_oregon_for_sprea.html |access-date=April 17, 2015 |website=The Oregonian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=December 14, 2013 |title=Oregon health exchange technology troubles run deep due to mismanagement, early decisions |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/12/oregon_health_exchange_technol.html |access-date=April 17, 2015 |website=The Oregonian}}</ref>

In August 2014, Oracle Corporation sued Cover Oregon for breach of contract,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Manning |first=Jeff |date=August 8, 2014 |title=Cover Oregon: Oracle comes out swinging, files lawsuit, accuses Kitzhaber of 'campaign' |work=Oregon Live |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/08/oracle_cover_oregon_lawsuit.html |access-date=August 27, 2014}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gallagher |first=Sean |date=August 25, 2014 |title=Oregon Attorney General sues Oracle for 'racketeering activity' |work=[[Ars Technica]] |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/oregon-attorney-general-sues-oracle-for-racketeering-activity/ |access-date=August 27, 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Foden-Vencil |first=Kristian |date=September 15, 2016 |title=Oregon, Oracle Reach $100 Million Settlement Over Cover Oregon Healthcare Exchange. News {{!}} OPB |work=Oregon Public Broadcast |url=http://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-oracle-cover-oregon-healthcare-exchange/ |access-date=September 16, 2016 |archive-date=September 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916193627/http://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-oracle-cover-oregon-healthcare-exchange/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Lucas |first=Dan |title=Who's to blame for the Cover Oregon failure? |url=https://eu.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/columnists/dan-lucas/2016/05/31/blame-cover-oregon-failure/85174300/ |access-date=13 November 2020 |website=Statesman Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Budnick and Manning |first=Nick and Jeff |date=March 19, 2014 |title=Oracle's Contracts for Cover Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Bypassed Standard Rules, Lacked Teeth |url=https://www.govtech.com/health/Oracles-Contracts-for-Cover-Oregon.html |access-date=13 November 2020 |website=www.govtech.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Turner |first=Grace-Marie |title=Oregon's Failed ObamaCare Exchange Is A Warning For Other States |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2015/03/31/oregons-failed-obamacare-exchange-is-a-warning-for-other-states/?sh=fd5221425fdf |access-date=13 November 2020 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>

{{Anchor|tracking class action}}

===Class action tracking lawsuit===
On August 23, 2022, Oracle was hit with a class action lawsuit by Lieff Cabraser representing Michael Katz-Lacabe, [[Biography:Jen Golbeck|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 [[Finance:Electronic Communications Privacy Act|Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act]], California's state constitution, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, competition law, and California Common Law.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

=== 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SEC.gov {{!}} SEC Charges Oracle Corporation With FCPA Violations Related to Secret Side Funds in India |url=https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2012-2012-158htm |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=www.sec.gov}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kunert |first=Paul |title=Oracle pays $23 million to the SEC to settle bribery charges |url=https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/27/oracle_fined_23_million_sec/ |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=www.theregister.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Events==

===Acquisition of Sun Microsystems===
In January 2010, Oracle completed its acquisition of [[Company:Sun Microsystems|Sun Microsystems]]—valued at more than $7&nbsp;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 [[Software:MySQL|MySQL]], but was unconditionally approved in the end.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Mergers: Commission clears Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems |date=January 21, 2010 |publisher=European Commission |url=http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/40 |access-date=April 17, 2015}}</ref> In September 2011, U.S. State Department Embassy cables were leaked to WikiLeaks. One cable revealed that the U.S. pressured the E.U. to allow Oracle to acquire Sun.<ref>{{cite web |last=Mick |first=Jason |date=September 1, 2011 |title=U.S. Pressured EU to Approve the Oracle's Acquisition of Sun |url=http://www.dailytech.com/US%20Pressured%20EU%20to%20Approve%20the%20Oracles%20Acquisition%20of%20Sun/article22581.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118215252/http://www.dailytech.com/US%20Pressured%20EU%20to%20Approve%20the%20Oracles%20Acquisition%20of%20Sun/article22581.htm |archive-date=January 18, 2012 |access-date=September 2, 2011 |website=Daily Tech |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

The Sun acquisition was closely watched by [[Free software|free software]] users and some companies, due to the fear that Oracle might end Sun's traditional support of [[Free software|free]] projects.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vance |first=Ashlee |date=September 21, 2010 |title=Oracle Growth Plans Worry Rivals and Customers |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/technology/22oracle.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Widenius |first=Monty |author-link=Monty Widenius |title=Save MySQL! |url=http://www.helpmysql.org |access-date=January 31, 2010 |quote=[Signer hereby asks] competition authorities around the world to block Oracle's acquisition of Sun unless one of the structural solutions selected by [signer] below is put in place as a legally binding requirement: (select at least one; all combinations are possible) MySQL must be divested to a suitable third party that can continue to develop it under the GPL. Oracle must commit to a linking exception for applications that use MySQL with the client libraries (for all programming languages), for plugins and libmysqld. MySQL itself remains licensed under the GPL. Oracle must release all past and future versions of MySQL (until December 2012) under the Apache Software License 2.0 or similar permissive license so that developers of applications and derived versions (forks) have flexibility concerning the code.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Paul |first=Ryan |date=April 20, 2009 |title=Oracle buys Sun: understanding the impact on open source |url=https://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/oracle-acquires-sun-ars-explores-the-impact-on-open-source.ars |access-date=March 6, 2011 |website=[[Ars Technica]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Fiveash |first=Kelly |date=March 9, 2010 |title=Open source boss quits Oracle |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/09/simon_phipps_quits_sun_oracle/ |website=The Register}}</ref> Since the acquisition, Oracle has discontinued [[Software:OpenSolaris|OpenSolaris]] and [[Software:StarOffice|StarOffice]], and sued [[Company:Google|Google]] over the [[Java (programming language)|Java]] patents Oracle acquired from Sun.<ref name="arsjava2">{{cite web |last=Paul |first=Ryan |date=August 14, 2010 |title=Oracle's Java lawsuit undermines its open source credibility |url=https://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/08/oracles-java-lawsuit-undermines-its-open-source-credibility.ars |access-date=March 6, 2011 |website=[[Ars Technica]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Weintraub |first=Seth |date=August 12, 2010 |title=Oracle files suit over Android's use of Java |publisher=CNN |url=http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/12/oracle-files-suit-over-androids-use-of-java/ |access-date=January 31, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119081751/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/12/oracle-files-suit-over-androids-use-of-java/ |archive-date=November 19, 2010}}</ref>

===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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Skillings |first=Jon |date=July 30, 2010 |title=Justice Department sues Oracle, alleging fraud |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/justice-department-sues-oracle-alleging-fraud/ |access-date=2021-11-02 |website=CNET |language=en}}</ref> It was settled in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gross |first=Grant |date=2011-10-06 |title=Oracle to pay $199.5 million in gov't contracting settlement |url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/2181875/oracle-to-pay--199-5-million-in-gov-t-contracting-settlement.html |access-date=2021-11-02 |website=Network World |language=en}}</ref>

===Lawsuit against Google===

==== Background ====
Oracle, the plaintiff, acquired ownership of the Java computer programing language when it acquired [[Company:Sun Microsystems|Sun Microsystems]] in January 2010.<ref name="ReutersJune2011" /> 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 "[[Package manager|packages]]" which each contain a set of "[[Class (computer programming)|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".<ref name="Quimbee">{{cite web |title=Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc. |url=https://www.quimbee.com/cases/oracle-america-inc-v-google-inc |access-date=2018-01-29 |website=Quimbee |language=en}}</ref>

Oracle and [[Company:Google|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 [[Software:Android (operating system)|Android]] [[Operating system|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.<ref name="Quimbee" />

==== First trial ====
In 2010, Oracle sued Google for [[Copyright infringement|copyright infringement]] for the use of the 37 Java packages.<ref name="Quimbee" /><ref name="ReutersJune2011">{{Cite news |date=2011-06-18 |title=Oracle seeks up to $6.1 billion in Google lawsuit |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-google-lawsuit/oracle-seeks-up-to-6-1-billion-in-google-lawsuit-idUSTRE75H0FP20110618 |access-date=2018-01-29}}</ref> 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<ref name="verge" />).<ref name="ReutersJune2011" /> In the lawsuit, Oracle sought between $1.4 billion and $6.1 billion.<ref name="ReutersJune2011" /> In June 2011 the judge had to force Google through a judicial order to make public the details about Oracle's claim for damages.<ref name="ReutersJune2011" />

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":<blockquote>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<ref name="verge">{{Cite news |last=Jeong |first=Sarah |date=2017-10-19 |title=How the judge on Oracle v. Google taught himself to code |work=The Verge |url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-google-judge-william-alsup-interview-waymo-uber |access-date=2018-01-29}}</ref></blockquote>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.<ref name="Quimbee" />

==== 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)).<ref name="Quimbee" /><ref name="eff-org">{{Cite news |date=2013-05-22 |title=Oracle v. Google |language=en |work=Electronic Frontier Foundation |url=https://www.eff.org/cases/oracle-v-google |access-date=2018-01-29}}</ref> 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 "[[Social:Fair use|fair use]]" defense.<ref name="eff-org" />

==== 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.<ref name="eff-org" />

==== Second trial ====
The case was then returned to the U.S. District Court for another trial about Google's fair use defense.<ref name="eff-org" /> Oracle sought $9 billion in damages.<ref name="ZDNet">{{Cite news |last=Tung |first=Liam |date=2017-02-13 |title=Just as you thought Java-Android row was over, it all kicks off again |language=en |work=ZDNet |url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-vs-google-just-as-you-thought-java-android-row-was-over-it-all-kicks-off-again/ |access-date=2018-01-29}}</ref> In May 2016, the trial jury found that Google's use of Java's APIs was considered fair use.<ref name="eff-org" />

==== Second appeal ====
In February 2017, Oracle filed another appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.<ref name="eff-org" /> 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."<ref name="ZDNet" />

===Discontinuation of OpenSolaris===
On August 13, 2010, an internal Oracle memo leaked to the Internet cited plans for ending the [[Software:OpenSolaris|OpenSolaris]] operating system project and community.<ref>{{cite web |last=Stallion |first=Steven |date=August 13, 2010 |title=OpenSolaris is Dead. |url=http://sstallion.blogspot.com/2010/08/opensolaris-is-dead.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109033546/http://sstallion.blogspot.com/2010/08/opensolaris-is-dead.html |archive-date=November 9, 2020 |access-date=September 7, 2011 |publisher=Iconoclastic Tendencies}}</ref> With Oracle planning to develop [[Software:Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]] only in a closed source fashion, OpenSolaris developers moved to the [[Software:Illumos|Illumos]] and [[Software:OpenIndiana|OpenIndiana]] project, among others.<ref name="Phoronix">{{cite web |last=Larabel |first=Michael |date=September 10, 2010 |title=OpenIndiana – Another OpenSolaris Fork – Coming Next Week |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODU4OA |access-date=September 13, 2010 |publisher=Phoronix}}</ref>

===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.<ref name="HttpwwwonlinecomopennewsitemOraclekillsOpenSSOExpressForgeRockstepsinhtml">{{cite web |date=February 24, 2010 |title=Oracle kills OpenSSO Express – ForgeRock steps in |url=http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-kills-OpenSSO-Express-ForgeRock-steps-in-939634.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208131331/http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-kills-OpenSSO-Express-ForgeRock-steps-in-939634.html |archive-date=December 8, 2013 |access-date=July 7, 2011 |publisher=The H Open Source – H-online.com}}</ref> Shortly after, OpenSSO was forked to [[Software:OpenAM|OpenAM]].<ref name="HttpwwwonlinecomopennewsitemOraclekillsOpenSSOExpressForgeRockstepsinhtml" /> and will continue to be developed and supported by [[Company:ForgeRock|ForgeRock]].

===Mark Hurd as president===
On September 6, 2010, Oracle announced that former [[Company:Hewlett-Packard|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 [[Company:Sun Microsystems|Sun Microsystems Inc.]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Phillips Resigns as President of Oracle |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/170531 |access-date=2017-09-14 |website=www.oracle.com}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Robertson |first=Jordan |title=Oracle names ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd co-president |language=en-US |work=sandiegouniontribune.com |agency=AP Technology |url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-oracle-names-ex-hp-ceo-mark-hurd-co-president-2010sep06-story.html |access-date=2017-09-14}}</ref>

On September 7, 2010, HP announced a civil lawsuit against Mark Hurd "to protect HP's trade secrets",<ref name="scribd.com">{{cite web |title=Court Filing: HP Civil Complaint Against Mark Hurd |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/37053792/Court-Filing-HP-Civil-Complaint-Against-Mark-Hurd |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100909011607/http://www.scribd.com/doc/37053792/Court-Filing-HP-Civil-Complaint-Against-Mark-Hurd |archive-date=September 9, 2010 |via=[[Company:Scribd|Scribd]]}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=HP and Oracle Reaffirm Commitment to Long-term Strategic Partnership |date=September 20, 2010 |url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100920007050/en/HP-Oracle-Reaffirm-Commitment-Long-term-Strategic-Partnership |access-date=September 5, 2011}}</ref>

===OpenOffice.org issue===
A number of [[Software:OpenOffice.org|OpenOffice.org]] developers formed [[Organization:The Document Foundation|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 [[Software:LibreOffice|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.<ref name="And So The Exodus Begins 33 OpenOffice.org Developers Leave Oracle">{{cite web |date=November 1, 2010 |title=And So The Exodus Begins – 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org |url=http://digitizor.com/2010/11/01/and-so-the-exodus-begins-33-developers-leave-openoffice-org/ |access-date=July 7, 2011 |publisher=Digitizor.com}}</ref> On June 1, 2011, Oracle donated OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation.<ref>{{cite web |date=June 1, 2011 |title=Oracle Donates OpenOffice to the Apache Software Foundation |url=http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/oracle_donates_openoffice_to_the_apache_software_f.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902023720/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/oracle_donates_openoffice_to_the_apache_software_f.php |archive-date=September 2, 2011 |access-date=September 5, 2011 |publisher=ReadWriteWeb |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

===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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Clark |first=Jack |date=June 16, 2011 |title=HP unleashes lawyers on Oracle over Itanium support |url=http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/business-of-it/2011/06/16/hp-unleashes-lawyers-on-oracle-over-itanium-support-40093131/ |access-date=June 17, 2011 |publisher=ZDNet UK}}</ref> Oracle called the lawsuit "an abuse of the judicial process"<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 7, 2011 |title=HP, Oracle exchange court jabs in escalating Itanium support showdown |work=ZDNet |url=http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hp-oracle-exchange-court-jabs-in-escalating-itanium-support-showdown/52043 |access-date=September 5, 2011}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 30, 2011 |title=Oracle fires back at HP in Itanium suit, doesn't mince words |work=ZDNet |url=http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/oracle-fires-back-at-hp-in-itanium-suit-doesnt-mince-words/56819 |access-date=September 5, 2011}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gallagher |first=Sean |date=August 1, 2012 |title=HP wins judgment in Itanium suit against Oracle |work=Ars Technica |url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/hp-wins-judgement-in-itanium-suit-against-oracle/ |access-date=July 1, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=McMillan |first=Robert |date=August 1, 2012 |title=HP Wins Big Victory Over Oracle in Battle of the Itanium |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/hp-itanium-2/ |access-date=August 6, 2012}}</ref> HP was awarded $3 billion in damages against Oracle in 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bright |first=Peter |date=June 30, 2016 |title=HP awarded $3B in damages from Oracle over Itanium database cancelation |work=Ars Technica |url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/hp-awarded-3b-in-damages-from-oracle-over-itanium-database-cancellation/ |access-date=July 1, 2016}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brittain |first=Blake |date=June 15, 2021 |title=Oracle loses bid to upend HP's $3 billion win |work={{wipe|Reuters}} |url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/oracle-loses-bid-upend-hps-3-billion-win-2021-06-14/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Quach |first=Katyanna |date=May 17, 2022 |title=Oracle really does owe HPE $3b after Supreme Court snub |url=https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/hp_oracle_supreme_court/ |website=The Register}}</ref>

=== 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).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Farrar |first=James |date=August 31, 2011 |title=Oracle under fire over ethics again: Feds investigating bribery for business in Africa |work=ZDNet |url=http://www.zdnet.com/blog/sustainability/oracle-under-fire-over-ethics-again-feds-investigating-bribery-for-business-in-africa/1596 |access-date=June 15, 2013}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |last=Stempel |first=Jonathan |date=September 27, 2022 |title=Oracle to pay about $23 mln to resolve a second SEC bribery case |url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/official-oracle-pay-about-23-mln-resolve-second-sec-bribery-case-2022-09-27/ |work={{wipe|Reuters}}}}</ref>

===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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hoover |first=J. Nicholas |date=2012-04-20 |title=Feds Banish Oracle From Popular Contract Vehicle |url=https://www.informationweek.com/regulations/feds-banish-oracle-from-popular-contract-vehicle/d/d-id/1103982 |access-date=2017-10-04 |website=InformationWeek}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 7, 2011 |title=Oracle to Pay $199.5 Million to Settle Overbilling Charges |work={{wipe|The New York Times}} |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/business/oracle-agrees-to-pay-to-settle-an-overbilling-claim.html |agency=Bloomberg News |url-access=subscription |access-date=September 16, 2013}}</ref>

=== U.S. TikTok's operations ===
On September 13, 2020, {{wipe|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 [[Software:TikTok|TikTok]], suggesting the deal may not be as structured as an outright sale.<ref>{{cite web |date=2020-09-13 |title= Oracle Wins Deal for TikTok's U.S. Operations |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-13/oracle-is-said-to-gain-advantage-in-deal-for-tiktok-in-u-s |url-access=subscription |first1=Shelly |last1=Banjo |first2=Dina |last2=Bass |first3=Saleha |last3=Mohsin |access-date=2020-09-14 |website=Bloomberg }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |date=2020-09-19 |title=Trump says he has approved a deal for purchase of TikTok |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/tech/donald-trump-tiktok-deal-approval/index.html |access-date=2020-09-19 |website=CNN |first1=Brian |last1=Fung }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |date=2021-02-10 |title=Biden backs off on TikTok ban in review of Trump China moves |url=https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-jen-psaki-ca5e68d8b23cb26a0e964b3ea5fe826d |first1=Tali |last1=Arbel |first2=Matt |last2=O'Brien |access-date=2021-02-11 |website=AP NEWS}}</ref>

==People==
* Larry Ellison: executive chairman and CTO (since September 2014), co-founder of the company, previously CEO (1977–2014),<ref name="nytimes-ellison-step-down" /> previously chairman (1990–2004). As of September 2021, he owns 42.4% of the company.<ref name="toc162163_22"/>
* Safra Catz: CEO (since September 2014),<ref name="nytimes-ellison-step-down" /> previously co-president (since 2004) and CFO.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hickens |first=Michael |date=March 21, 2013 |title=New Rivals Clip Oracle's Wings |pages=B1–2 |work={{wipe|The Wall Street Journal}} |type=paper |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324103504578374884239534960 |access-date=March 23, 2013}}</ref> In 2016, she was ranked tenth on ''Fortune's'' Most Powerful Women list.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2016-09-08 |title=Safra Catz |language=en-US |work=Fortune |url=http://fortune.com/most-powerful-women/safra-catz-10/ |access-date=2017-09-14 |archive-date=May 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505004954/http://fortune.com/most-powerful-women/safra-catz-10/ }}</ref>
* Jeff Henley: vice chairman (since September 2014), previously chairman (2004–2014) and CFO (1991–2004).
* Mark Hurd: former CEO (2014–2019),<ref name="nytimes-ellison-step-down">{{Cite news |last=Hardy |first=Quentin |date=September 18, 2014 |title=Larry Ellison to Step Down as Oracle's Chief |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/technology/larry-ellison-steps-down-as-chief-of-oracle.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=September 19, 2014}}</ref> previously co-president (2010–2014). In 2007, Mark Hurd was ranked {{Numero|16}} on ''Fortune''{{'}}s list of the 25 Most Powerful People in Business.<ref>{{cite web |title=25 most powerful people in business |url=https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0711/gallery.power_25.fortune/16.html |access-date=2015-04-17 |website=Fortune}}</ref> 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 [[Software:Oracle Database|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. He died in 2022.
* 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.<ref name="founders" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-09-08 |title=Scott/Tiger in Oracle |language=en-US |url=https://oralytics.com/2012/09/08/scotttiger-in-oracle/ |access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref>
*Marc Benioff: former protégé of Ellison and the youngest to be promoted to vice president at the time; left to found and lead [[Company:Salesforce|Salesforce]] in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kim |first=Eugene |date=August 12, 2015 |title=The epic 30-year bromance of billionaire CEOs Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-marc-benioff-relationship-2015-8 |website=Insider}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/business/2004/02/05/larry-ups-the-ante |title=Larry ups the ante |date=February 5, 2004 |newspaper=The Economist}}</ref>

==Offices==
Since December 2020, Oracle Corporation's world headquarters has been located 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. This complex was home to Oracle world headquarters from 1989 to 2020.  It 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 four additional buildings.

The distinctive Oracle Parkway buildings, nicknamed the Emerald City,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rich |first=Laura |date=July 23, 2010 |title=When it comes to {{sic|nolink=y|acqui|stion|expected=acquisition}} plans, it's Oracle vs Oracle |publisher=CNNMoney.com |url=http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/07/23/is-oracle-spending-big-on-acquisitions/ |access-date=March 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100827184259/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/07/23/is-oracle-spending-big-on-acquisitions/ |archive-date=August 27, 2010 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> served as sets for the futuristic headquarters of the fictional company "NorthAm Robotics" in the Robin Williams film ''Bicentennial Man'' (1999).<ref>{{cite web |title=Trivia for Bicentennial Man |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182789/trivia |access-date=March 27, 2011 |publisher=Internet Movie Database}}</ref> The campus also represented the headquarters of Cyberdyne Systems in the movie ''Terminator Genisys'' (2015).<ref>{{cite web |title=Trivia for Terminator Genisys |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340138/trivia |access-date=July 9, 2015 |publisher=Internet Movie Database}}</ref>

{{wide image|Oracle Redwood City February 2013 panorama.jpg|1200px|Oracle offices in Redwood Shores, California}}

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File:Oracle Redwood City May 2011 001.jpg|300 Oracle Parkway in Redwood Shores
File:Oracle HQ3.jpg|Oracle Offices in Redwood Shores, with Oracle Plaza building in left foreground
File:Oracle Conference Center, Oracle HQ.JPG|Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores
File:Oracle Fountain (6532480).jpg|Fountain in the Oracle lake, Redwood Shores
File:Oracle at Thames Valley Park.jpg|Oracle has a major business campus at Thames Valley Park in Reading in England
File:Oracle Aoyama Center 01.JPG|Oracle Aoyama Center Building, with Lexus International Gallery Aoyama
File:OracleMarkham.JPG|Oracle in Markham, Ontario
File:Oracle office in Melbourne.jpg|Oracle office in [[Place:Melbourne|Melbourne]], {{wipe|Australia}}
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== 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.<ref name="Sanati-18Dec2017">{{Cite news |last=Sanati |first=Cyrus |date=16 August 2016 |title=Inside Oracle's Acquisition Machine |work=Fortune |url=http://fortune.com/2016/08/15/oracle-acquisition-machine/ |access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref> Oracle Corporation GBUs include:

* Communications
* Construction and engineering - formerly the Primavera GBU
* Financial services 
* Food and Beverages
* Health sciences
* Hospitality
* Retail
* Energy and Water

==Sponsorships==
[[File:German Sailing Grand Prix 2006 Oracle-2.jpg|thumb|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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 20, 2006 |title=Golden State Warriors, Oracle Reach Arena Naming Rights Agreement |work=Warriors.com |publisher=NBA Media Ventures, LLC |url=http://www.nba.com/warriors/news/Oracle_Naming_Rights_Agreement.html |access-date=June 14, 2019}}</ref> The agreement ended after the 2018–2019 NBA season when the Warriors relocated to the Chase Center in San Francisco.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harrington |first=Jim |date=September 3, 2019 |title=With Warriors gone, the new name of Oracle Arena in Oakland is… |work=The Mercury News |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/03/with-warriors-gone-the-new-name-of-oracle-arena-is/ |access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref>

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)<ref>{{cite web |last=Shankland |first=Stephen |date=February 16, 2010 |title=Ellison's team wins long-sought sailing trophy |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10453845-264.html |website=CNET |access-date=October 5, 2010 |archive-date=March 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313031533/http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10453845-264.html }}</ref> and in 2013,<ref>{{cite web |date=September 25, 2013 |title=Oracle Team USA stages massive comeback to win 34th America's Cup |url=http://www.americascup.com/en/34th-americas-cup/18441_final-preview-barker-vs-spithill-for-winner-take-all-race-at-1315.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312213827/http://www.americascup.com/en/34th-americas-cup/18441_final-preview-barker-vs-spithill-for-winner-take-all-race-at-1315.html |archive-date=March 12, 2014 |access-date=March 12, 2014 |publisher=America's Cup |df=mdy-all}}</ref> despite being penalized for cheating.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 3, 2009 |title=Oracle hit with stiff penalty |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/09/03/oracle-hit-with-stiff-penalty-over.html |access-date=2019-11-14 |website=www.bizjournals.com |format=PDF}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=CNBC |date=August 26, 2013 |title=Did Larry Ellison cheat in the America's Cup? |url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/100988239 |website=www.cnbc.com}}</ref>

Sean Tucker's "Challenger II" stunt biplane is sponsored by Oracle and performs frequently at air shows around the US.<ref>{{cite web |title=Team Oracle Sponsors and Suppliers |url=http://www.oracle.com/cluboracle/teamoracle/sponsors.html |publisher=Oracle Corporation}}</ref>

In January 2019, the San Francisco Giants entered into a 20-year agreement to rename their stadium Oracle Park.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 10, 2019 |title=Giants' home has been renamed Oracle Park |url=http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25724823 |website=ESPN.com}}</ref>

From the 2022 Formula One season, Oracle signed a 5-year deal worth $500m to become title sponsors of Red Bull Racing, after already being a sponsor effective from the 2021 season.<ref>{{cite web |date=2022-02-09 |title=Red Bull F1 clinches new $500M title sponsorship with Oracle |url=https://apnews.com/article/sports-technology-business-auto-racing-max-verstappen-800371ff9393347d9dd73618cd6fb6f7 |access-date=2022-02-09 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fair |first=Asher |url=https://beyondtheflag.com/2022/07/26/nascar-potential-joe-gibbs-racing-sponsor-revealed/ |title=NASCAR: Potential Joe Gibbs Racing sponsor revealed |publisher=Beyondtheflag.com |date=2022-07-26 |access-date=2022-08-18}}</ref>

==See also==
* List of acquisitions by Oracle
* [[Social:Oracle Applications|Oracle Applications]]
* [[Social:Oracle Certification Program|Oracle Certification Program]]
* [[Software:Oracle Clinical|Oracle Clinical]]
* [[Software:Oracle Database|Oracle Database]]
* [[Software:Oracle Linux|Oracle Linux]]
* Oracle User Group
* Cover Oregon

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{Cite journal |last=Mendelsohn |first=Andrew |date=April–June 2013 |title=The Oracle Story: 1984–2001 |journal=[[IEEE Annals of the History of Computing]] |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=10–23 |doi=10.1109/MAHC.2012.56 |id=INSPEC Accession Number 13640647 |s2cid=17907189}}

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