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`Who is Oracle and where do they come from?
`Who is the man behind Oracle Corporation?
`Where did the word Oracle originate from?
`How can I get in touch with Oracle Corporation?
`Who are Oracle's main competitors?
`How strong is Oracle as a company?
`What is Oracle Corporation's history?
`How fast is the Oracle database?
`How does one obtain support?
`Where can one find more info about Oracle (the company)?
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`Who is Oracle and where do they come from?
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`Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores
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`Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores
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`Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores
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`Oracle's Head HQ buildings in Redwood Shores - also featured in the movie Bicentennial Man (1999)
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`Oracle Corporation was founded in 1977 in Redwood, California. They introduced the first Relational Database
`Management System based on the IBM System/R model and the first database management system utilizing IBM's
`Structured Query Language (SQL) technology.
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`Today, the Oracle DBMS is supported on over 80 different operating environments, ranging from IBM mainframes, DEC
`VAX minicomputers, UNIX-based minicomputers, Windows NT and several proprietary hardware-operating system
`platforms, and is clearly the world's largest RDBMS vendor.
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`Oracle employs more than 42,000 professionals in 93 countries around the world. Their expenditure for research and
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`Who is the man behind Oracle Corporation?
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`Lawrence J. Ellison (Born: 1944, Chicago) is president and CEO of Oracle corporation.
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`He's the Oracle worlds hero, and he should be. Oracle Corporation, the company he founded with
`Robert N. (Bob) Miner and Ed Oates back in 1977, has emerged as the world's largest vendor of
`software that helps large corporations and governments better manage their information.
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`Check out the book: What's the difference between God and Larry Ellison". It's really a great book,
`and is pretty even handed with who Larry Ellison is with lots of interesting stories from the early
`days of Oracle. The name of the book came from a funny e-mail message that went around the
`company. The answer to the question is: "God doesn't think he's Larry..."
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`Also read these articles about him:
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`Q and A with Oracle's Larry Ellison!!!
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`Executive Bio: Larry Ellison
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`Larry Ellison - Man of the Week
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`The grand obsessions of Larry Ellison
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`Where did the word Oracle originate from?
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`The word Oracle means:
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`Prophecy or prediction; answer to a question believed to come from the gods; a statement believed to be infallible and
`authoritative; a shrine at which these answers are given
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`There is, however, more to the word Oracle: used for the name of the database engine, and then later for the company itself.
`Larry Ellison and Bob Miner were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency in USA) where
`the CIA wanted to use this new SQL language that IBM had written a white paper about. The code name for the project was
`Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give all answers to all questions or something such ;-).
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`The project eventually died (of sorts) but Larry and Bob saw the opportunity to take what they had started and market it. So
`they used that project's codename of Oracle to name their new RDBMS engine. Funny thing is, that one of Oracle's first
`customers was the CIA...
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`How can I get in touch with Oracle Corporation?
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`Home Page: http://www.oracle.com/
`FAQ:
`http://www.orafaq.org/
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`Who are Oracle's main competitors?
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`Oracle's main competitors in the database business are:
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`CA with Ingres
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`IBM with DB/2
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`Informix with the Informix DB
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`Home Page FAQ
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`Home Page FAQ
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`Home Page FAQ
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`Microsoft with Access and SQL Server Home Page FAQ
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`Software AG with ADABAS
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`Home Page FAQ
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`Sybase with their Sybase System
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`Home Page FAQ
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`PostgreSQL (free open source database) Home Page FAQ
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`Oracle's main competitors in the applications business are:
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`SAP (R/2 and R/3) Home Page FAQ
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`Baan
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`Home Page FAQ
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`How strong is Oracle as a company?
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`Oracle is the number one developer of database management systems (DBMS) software in the world. But don't believe me,
`look at Oracle's recent performance on the stock market (NASDAQ:ORCL):
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`Silicon Investor
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`Yahoo Quotes
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`Island.com
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`What is Oracle's history?
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`Relational Software Inc. (RSI - currently Oracle Corporation) established
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`an on PDP-11 under RSX, 128 KB max memory. Written in assembly language. Implementation separated
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`Oracle code and user code. Oracle V1 was never officially released.
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`Oracle V2 released on DEC PDP-11 machine. Still written in PDP-11 assembly language, but now ran under
`Vax/VMS.
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`Oracle V3 released, Oracle became the first DBMS to run on mainframes, minicomputers, and PC's. First release to
`employ transactional processing. Oracle V3's server code was written in C.
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`Relational Software Inc. changed its name to Oracle Corporation.
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`Oracle V4 released, introduced read consistency, was ported to multiple platforms, first interoperability between PC
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`Oracle V5 released. Featured true client/server, VAX-cluster support, and distributed queries. (first DBMS with
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`Oracle V6 released.
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`Released Oracle 6.2 with Symmetric cluster access using the Oracle Parallel Server
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`Reached power of 1,000 TPS on a parallel computing machine.
`First database to run on a massively parallel computer.
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`Released Oracle7 for Unix
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`Rollout of Oracle's Cooperative Development Environment (CDE).
`Introduction of Oracle Industries and the Oracle Media Server.
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`Headquarters moved to present location.
`Released Oracle7 for the PC.
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`Reported gross revenues of almost $3 billion.
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`Oracle8 released (supports more users, more data, higher availability)
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`Oracle announces support for the Intel Linux operating system
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`Oracle8i or Oracle 8.1.5 with Java integration
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`Oracle8i Release 2
`Oracle now not only the number one in Databases but also in ERP Applications
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`Oracle9i Release 1
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`Oracle9i Release 2
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`Oracle10G released
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`How fast is the Oracle database?
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`The standard Oracle license agreement normally prevents users from publishing benchmark results. The best source for
`performance related data is the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). Visit their Home Page for database
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`Some performance related links can be found in the Dare to Compare section on this FAQ.
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`How does one obtain support?
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`When you buy Oracle products you will receive a period of free support to get you started. Based on your needs you should
`negotiate a support contract. Oracle offers 3 levels of support, OracleBronze, OracleSilver and OracleGold.
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`When you are registered as a support customer, you will receive a CSI (Customer Support Identification) number. Quote this
`number whenever you call for assistance.
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`When you log a call, Oracle will open a TAR (Technical Assistance Request) to identify and track your problem. TAR's can
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`Priority 1: Critical Business Impact
`Priority 2: Serious Business Impact
`Priority 3: Minor Business Impact
`Priority 4: No Business Impact
`Priority 5: Information Request
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`Where can one find more info about Oracle (the company)?
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`Oracle Corporation - Business and Financial Profile
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`The Anti-Oracle Page - for the few that don't like Oracle
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