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Oracle Corporation

Larry Ellison · 1977

Oracle Corporation is a multinational technology company founded in 1977 in Santa Clara, California, by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates. It sells database software (especially Oracle Database), enterprise applications (ERP, HCM, CX, SCM), and cloud infrastructure and hardware. By the mid-2000s, it had become the world's largest enterprise software vendor. Its foundational database design drew from Edgar F. Codd’s relational model paper. IBM’s delay in releasing a relational database for Unix and Windows allowed Oracle to dominate mid-range and microcomputer systems. Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010 after regulatory approval in the U.S. and EU.