Oracle

History

YearDetail
1977 Engineers Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates founded Software Development Laboratories in Santa Clara, California
1982 The company changes its name to Oracle Corporation
1986 Oracle becomes a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ exchange 
1987 Oracle ranked as world's largest database mangement company
1989 Oracle moves to its currect location in Redwood Shores, California
1995 CEO Larry Ellison introduces delivering Oracle software via the internet
1999 InformationWeek names Oracle database as one of the most influential products of the 1990s
2005 Oracle acquires PeopleSoft
2008 Marvel entertainment smashes silos and mines data using Oracle applications
2010 Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems
2013 Oracle Database plugs into the cloud
2018 Oracle launches the first autonomous database
2018 CERN openlab uses 10,000 Oracle Cloud cores to perform physics analysis
2019 ELEM computes full-heart models of diseased hearts using Oracle's high performance cloud
2022 Oracle acquires HER pioneer Cerner
2023 Oracle signed an agreement  to acquire Next Technik