Company Story
1977 - Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates founded Oracle Corporation
1979 - Oracle releases its first product, Oracle Database 2
1981 - Oracle goes public with an initial public offering (IPO)
1987 - Oracle releases Oracle Database 6, which supports client-server architecture
1990 - Oracle releases Oracle RDBMS 6.0, which supports distributed databases
1995 - Oracle releases Oracle 7, which introduces PL/SQL
1999 - Oracle releases Oracle 8i, which introduces Internet capabilities
2005 - Oracle acquires PeopleSoft, a major enterprise resource planning (ERP) company
2006 - Oracle releases Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, a comprehensive middleware platform
2010 - Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems, a leading provider of Java technology
2014 - Oracle releases Oracle Cloud, a comprehensive cloud computing platform