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Robert smith
Fri Jul 30, 2010 |
Oracle Corporation is in the business of managing information. Oracle offers information solutions for businesses: how to manage information, ways to use it, solutions for sharing it, how to protect it.
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company, offering solutions for middleware, business intelligence, business applications, and collaboration.
Oracle company headquarters are located in Redwood Shores, CA (between San Jose and San Francisco). Oracle was founded in 1977 and now employs over 55,000 people worldwide. |
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William Hill
Fri Jul 30, 2010 |
On the web: http://www.oracle.com
Employees: 86,000
Employee growth: 2.1%
According to this Oracle, consolidation in the business software industry is the wisest move. The enterprise software giant provides a range of tools for managing business data, supporting business operations, and facilitating collaboration and application development. Oracle also offers business applications for data warehousing, customer relationship management, and supply chain management. In recent years the company has aggressively used acquisitions to expand, including the purchases of PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, and BEA Systems. In April 2009 the company announced plans for its most ambitious acquisition to date, the purchase of Sun for about $7.4 billion; the deal was completed in early 2010.
Key numbers for fiscal year ending May, 2010:
Sales: $26,820.0M
One year growth: 15.3%
Net income: $6,135.0M
Income growth: 9.7%
Officers:
Chairman: Jeffrey O. (Jeff) Henley
CEO and Director: Lawrence J. (Larry) Ellison
Co-President and Director: Safra A. Catz
Competitors:
IBM
Microsoft
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William Hill
Fri Jul 30, 2010 |
Oracle is ranked among the 10 best companies for a six-month return on equity.
Oracle's relational database was the world's first to support the Structured Query Language, now an industry standard.
Today, the Oracle DBMS is supported on over 80 different operating environments, ranging from IBM mainframes and DEC VAX minicomputers, to UNIX-based minicomputers and Windows NT platforms.
Oracle spends nearly 13% of their revenues for research and development.
Oracle V1 ran on PDP-11 under RSX, 128 KB max memory and was written in assembly language.
Oracle created the first database to run on a massively parallel computer.
All 10 of the world's largest Web sites- from Amazon.com to Yahoo! - use Oracle.
65% of the Fortune 100 use Oracle for e-business. |
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William Hill
Fri Jul 30, 2010 |
Oracle is ranked among the 10 best companies for a six-month return on equity.
Oracle's relational database was the world's first to support the Structured Query Language, now an industry standard.
Today, the Oracle DBMS is supported on over 80 different operating environments, ranging from IBM mainframes and DEC VAX minicomputers, to UNIX-based minicomputers and Windows NT platforms.
Oracle spends nearly 13% of their revenues for research and development.
Oracle V1 ran on PDP-11 under RSX, 128 KB max memory and was written in assembly language.
Oracle created the first database to run on a massively parallel computer.
All 10 of the world's largest Web sites- from Amazon.com to Yahoo! - use Oracle.
65% of the Fortune 100 use Oracle for e-business. |
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