Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation

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Formerly	Software Development Laboratories (1977–1979) Relational Software, Inc. (1979–1983) Oracle Systems Corporation (1983–1995)
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Industry	Enterprise software Business software Cloud computing Computer hardware Consulting
Founded	June 16, 1977 (1977-06-16), in Santa Clara, California, United States<ref name="incorporation">Oracle, FAQ; orafaq.com Archived January 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.</ref>
Founder(s)s	Larry Ellison Bob Miner
Headquarters	Austin, Texas , United States<br />30°14′34″N 97°43′18″W
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Larry Ellison (executive chairman & CTO) Safra Catz (executive vice chair) Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia (co-CEOs)
Products	Oracle Applications Oracle Database Oracle ERP Oracle Cloud Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware (Full list) | Oracle Solaris
Revenue	US$57.40&nbsp;billion (2025)
Operating income	US$17.68&nbsp;billion (2025)
Net income	US$12.44&nbsp;billion (2025)
Total assets	US$168.4&nbsp;billion (2025)
Total equity	US$20.97&nbsp;billion (2025)
Owner	Larry Ellison (42.4%)<ref name="toc162163_22">"Oracle Corporation §Security ownership of certain beneficial owners and management". Securities and Exchange Commission.</ref>
Number of employees	c. 162,000 (2025)
Subsidiaries	List of Oracle subsidiaries
Website	oracle.com
Footnotes / references Financials as of May 31, 2025.<ref name="10K">"Oracle Corporation 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2025". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. June 18, 2025.</ref>

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas.<ref>Bursztynsky, Jessica (December 11, 2020). "Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas". CNBC. Retrieved December 12, 2020.</ref> Co-founded in Santa Clara, California by Bob Miner, Ed Oates, and current chairman of the board and chief technology officer, Larry Ellison in 1977,<ref>Kerr, Dara (September 11, 2025). "Larry Ellison: Oracle co-founder who overtook Musk as world's richest person". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref><ref>"Forbes Real Time Billionaires List - The World's Richest People". Forbes. Retrieved September 21, 2025.</ref><ref>"Bloomberg Billionaires Index". Bloomberg.com. September 20, 2025. Retrieved September 21, 2025.</ref> Oracle is among the 20 largest companies in the world<ref>"Companies ranked by Market Cap". CompaniesMarketCap.com. Retrieved September 21, 2025.</ref> by market cap, and ranked 66th<ref>Schifrin, Matt; Murphy, Andrea. "Forbes' 2025 Global 2000 List—The World's Largest Companies Ranked". Forbes. Retrieved September 21, 2025.</ref> on the Forbes Global 2000 as of 2025.

The company sells database software (particularly the Oracle Database), enterprise applications, and cloud infrastructure and hardware. Oracle's core application software is a suite of enterprise software products, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), human capital management (HCM), Customer Experience (CX) and supply chain management (SCM) software.<ref>Vickers, Marques (2016). The Architectural Elevation of Technology: A Photo Survey of 75 Silicon Valley Headquarters. Marquis Publishing. p. 97.</ref><ref name=":4">"What is Oracle? | IBM". www.ibm.com. June 5, 2024. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref>

History

See also: List of acquisitions by Oracle

Larry Ellison, executive chairman and co-founder of Oracle

Oracle Corporation's former headquarters in Redwood Shores, California

USA 17 racing yacht at Oracle Corporation Headquarters

Oracle Austin Riverside Campus in 2018

Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates co-founded Oracle in 1977 in Santa Clara, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL).<ref name="founders">Bort, Julie (September 18, 2014). "Where Are They Now? Look What Happened to the Co-founders of Oracle". Business Insider. Retrieved March 29, 2018.</ref><ref name="rdbmsearlyyearsoh20070612">"RDBMS Plenary 1: Early Years" (PDF) (Interview). Interviewed by Burton Grad. Computer History Museum. June 12, 2007. p. 33. Retrieved May 30, 2025.</ref> Beginning as consultants with a background in large-scale memory after a project for Ampex, Ellison took inspiration<ref>"Oracle's 30th Anniversary" (PDF). Profit. Oracle Corporation. May 2007. p. 26. Retrieved July 16, 2010.</ref> from the 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database management systems (RDBMS) named "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks."<ref>Codd, E. F. (1970). "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks". Communications of the ACM. 13 (6): 377–387. doi:10.1145/362384.362685. S2CID 207549016.</ref> He heard about the IBM System R database<ref name="rdbmsoracle20070612">"RDBMS Workshop: Oracle" (PDF) (PDF). Interviewed by Luanne Johnson. Computer History Museum. June 12, 2007. Retrieved January 2, 2026.</ref> from an article in an IBM research journal provided by Oates. Ellison wanted to make Oracle's product compatible with System R, but failed to do so as IBM kept the error codes for their DBMS a secret. SDL changed its name to Relational Software, Inc (RSI) in 1979,<ref name="niemiec">Niemiec, Richard (2003). Oracle9i Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques. New York: McGraw-Hill/Osborne. ISBN 978-0-07-222473-3.</ref> then again to Oracle Systems Corporation in 1983,<ref>"Oracle Corporation - Oracle FAQ". www.orafaq.com. Retrieved March 7, 2020.</ref> to align itself more closely with its flagship product Oracle Database. The name also drew from the codename of a 1977 project for the Central Intelligence Agency, Oracle's first customer;<ref>"Larry Ellison's Oracle Started As a CIA Project". gizmodo.com/. September 19, 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2021.</ref><ref>Schofield, Jack; Brockes, Emma (April 28, 2000). "Welcome to Larryland". The Guardian. Retrieved November 28, 2024.</ref> the company received permission to use the code name for the new product. (According to Oracle executive Mike Humphries, Miner told him that the new company had the choice of the CIA database project or another offer to develop a compiler for the PDP-4, and the founders flipped a coin to decide.)<ref name="rdbmsfinancing20070612">"RDBMS Workshop: Financing" (PDF) (Interview). Interviewed by Luanne Johnson. Computer History Museum. June 12, 2007. Retrieved May 30, 2025.</ref>

Miner served as a senior programmer, and Oates also worked in development. The three founders decided that Ellison was the worst programmer so he became the salesman. Understanding both customers and technology, Ellison designed database tables that he used to demonstrate the power of SQL to customers. By February 1983 the Rosen Electronics Letter said that Oracle was "the most comprehensive offering we've seen" among databases, with good marketing and a substantial installed base encouraging developers to write software for it. The newsletter said that revenue in fiscal 1983 would be about $8 million and would double in 1984.<ref name="rosen19830222">"DBMS and the workstation: Oracle gets close" (PDF). The Rosen Electronics Letter. February 22, 1983. pp. 3–5. Retrieved June 5, 2025.</ref> On March 12, 1986, the company had its initial public offering.<ref>"Investor Relations". investor.oracle.com. Retrieved August 10, 2017.</ref> In 1989, Oracle moved its world headquarters to the Redwood Shores neighborhood of Redwood City, California, though its campus<ref>"ORACLE HEADQUARTERS - KSH Architects". January 14, 2014. Retrieved July 31, 2025.</ref> was not completed until 1995.<ref name="Cerny_Page_164">Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith. p. 164. ISBN 978-1-58685-432-4. Retrieved February 13, 2023.</ref> The company hired so many from top universities that Humphries compared it to "Cargill buying crops". Some new employees worked as receptionists or distributed coffee until more suitable positions became available.

Oracle in the late 1980s began selling enterprise software running on the database, starting with financial software, then manufacturing. Many at Oracle wanted to discontinue applications; the first several versions were weak, they competed with the company's independent software vendors and value-added reseller partners, and applications were never profitable for Oracle until after 2000. Selling them (and acquiring vendors such as JD Edwards and PeopleSoft, the latter being the second hostile takeover in the history of software) nonetheless allowed Oracle to compete with SAP; by the mid-2000s it was the world's largest enterprise software vendor. The company's Ken Jacobs later said:

It created a strategic footprint in our customers. It gave us a whole stack, a credible stack. And we could now sell at a higher point into the companies, into the board room. And, our large customers wanted to consider us a strategic partner, rather than just a vendor of technology. So, it has, actually, had a big impact on the way our sales force could sell.

In 1995, Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corporation,<ref>"Oracle Systems Corporation Renamed 'Oracle Corporation'" (Press release). Oracle Corporation. June 1, 1995. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved April 17, 2015.</ref> officially named Oracle, but is sometimes referred to as Oracle Corporation, the name of the holding company.<ref>Frequently Asked Questions | Investor Relations. Oracle. Retrieved July 14, 2013.</ref>

In 2010, Oracle launched Fusion Applications to unify the features and technologies of acquisitions PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, and JD Edwards, into a single suite.<ref>"Oracle officially launches its Fusion apps". CNET. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref>

On July 15, 2013, Oracle transferred its stock listing from Nasdaq to the New York Stock Exchange. At the time, it was the largest-ever U.S. market transfer.<ref>McCrank, John (June 20, 2013). "Oracle to move listing to Big Board from Nasdaq in coup for NYSE". Reuters. Retrieved February 9, 2023.</ref>

In 2018, Oracle opened a new office in southeast Austin, Texas.<ref>"Oracle opens new Austin office with space for up to 10,000 employees | Built In Austin". Built In. Retrieved June 20, 2025.</ref> In December 2020, Oracle announced that it was moving its world headquarters from Redwood Shores to Austin, Texas.<ref name="Li">Li, Roland (December 11, 2020). "Oracle to move headquarters from California to Austin, in latest loss for Silicon Valley". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved February 13, 2023.</ref>

In an effort to compete with Amazon Web Services and its products, Oracle announced in 2019 it was partnering with former rival Microsoft. The alliance claimed that Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure would be directly connected, allowing customers of each to store data on both cloud computing platforms and run software on either Oracle or Azure. Some saw this not only as an attempt to compete with Amazon but also with Google and Salesforce, which acquired Looker and Tableau Software, respectively.<ref>Duffy, Clare (June 13, 2019). "Why rivals Microsoft and Oracle are teaming up to take on Amazon | CNN Business". CNN. Retrieved September 22, 2022.</ref> In 2023, Oracle and Microsoft expanded their partnership to deliver Oracle database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure running inside Microsoft Azure.<ref>Tanzer, Brett (September 9, 2024). "Microsoft and Oracle enhance Oracle Database@Azure with data and AI integration". Microsoft Azure Blog. Retrieved December 15, 2025.</ref>

A year later, Oracle announced similar partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, making the Oracle database available in all four major hyperscaler providers.<ref>McDowell, Steve. "Oracle Meets AWS: New Partnership Delivers Best Of Two Cloud Worlds". Forbes. Archived from the original on July 23, 2025. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref>

In December 2021, Oracle announced the acquisition of Cerner, a health information technology company.<ref>Lohr, Steve (December 20, 2021). "Oracle takes a big move toward health with a deal to buy Cerner for $28.3 billion". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 28, 2021. Retrieved December 22, 2021.</ref> The acquisition of Cerner was completed on June 8, 2022, for US$28.3 billion in cash.<ref>Headlee, Peyton (June 7, 2022). "Oracle finalizes deal to buy Cerner for $28.3 billion". KMBC. Retrieved June 8, 2022.</ref> Also in December 2021, Oracle announced the acquisition of Federos, an artificial intelligence (AI) and automation tools company for network performance.<ref>"Oracle buys Federos". Oracle Corporation. December 21, 2021. Retrieved December 21, 2021.</ref>

In February 2023, the company announced it was going to invest $1.5 billion into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including opening a data centre in the country's capital, Riyadh.<ref>Mukherjee, Supantha; Yaakoubi, Aziz El (February 6, 2023). "Oracle to invest $1.5 billion in Saudi Arabia, open data centre in Riyadh". Reuters. Retrieved February 6, 2023.</ref>

In April 2024, Oracle announced it was moving its world headquarters from Austin to a new complex in Nashville, Tennessee.<ref>"Oracle's Larry Ellison says planned Nashville campus will be company's 'world headquarters'". AP News. April 24, 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2024.</ref> No timeframe was given.

In June 2024, Oracle announced a $1 billion investment in Spain to enhance artificial intelligence and cloud computing. This investment will create a new cloud region in Madrid in partnership with Telefónica. The goal is to help Spanish businesses and the public sector with digital transformation and to meet European Union regulations.<ref>"Oracle to invest over $1 bln on AI, cloud computing in Spain". Reuters. February 6, 2023. Retrieved June 21, 2024.</ref> The same year, the company announced investments in Japan and Malaysia for US$8 billion and US$6.5 billion, respectively.<ref>"Oracle Invests $8B to Expand Cloud, AI Offerings in Japan". Archived from the original on July 23, 2025. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref><ref>"Oracle: US$6.5 bil investment in Malaysia 'more than a data centre'". MIDA | Malaysian Investment Development Authority. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref>

In January 2025, President Donald Trump announced Stargate, a joint venture by Oracle, OpenAI, SoftBank and investment firm MGX to invest $500 billion over four years in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the US.<ref>Jacobs, Jennifer (January 22, 2025). "Trump announces up to $500 billion in private sector AI infrastructure investment - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved January 22, 2025.</ref> Also in 2025, the company announced additional investments in the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands for US$5 billion and US$3 billion, respectively.<ref>Kaur, Dashveenjit (March 21, 2025). "Oracle's $5bn UK cloud investment". Cloud Computing News. Retrieved December 15, 2025.</ref><ref>Goovaerts, Diana (July 16, 2025). "Oracle plots $3B European expansion". www.fierce-network.com. Retrieved December 15, 2025.</ref>

In September 2025, Oracle announced it was promoting Clay Magouyrk, president of cloud infrastructure, and Mike Sicilia, president of industries, to become co-CEOs. They replaced Safra Catz, who held the position for 11 years, and transitioned to a new role as executive vice chair.<ref>Novet, Russell Leung,Ashley Capoot,Jordan (September 22, 2025). "Oracle names Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as co-CEOs". CNBC. Retrieved December 15, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)</ref><ref>Bajwa, Arsheeya (September 22, 2025). "Oracle names insiders Clay Magouyrk, Mike Sicilia as co-CEOs in surprise move". Reuters.</ref>

In January 2026, social media platform TikTok announced it finalized a deal to change ownership of its U.S. operations, with Oracle, MGX and private equity firm Silver Lake each owning a 15% stake in the venture, while ByteDance retained a 19.9% stake.<ref>"TikTok finalizes deal to keep operating in US". ABC News. Retrieved January 23, 2026.</ref> As of March 2026, Oracles TikTok stake was worth an estimated ~$2B.<ref>Murti, Lola (March 11, 2026). "Oracle's TikTok stake sits at just over $2 billion, filing shows". CNBC. Retrieved March 13, 2026.</ref>

In March 2026, Oracle signed a voluntary "ratepayer protection pledge" where companies pledge to build or buy energy needed to power data centers at a different rate to regular consumers, allowing them to keep utility bills down substantially.<ref>Nilsen, Ella (March 4, 2026). "Trump, tech companies sign voluntary pledge to protect consumers from rising electricity costs | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved March 12, 2026.</ref>

For the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 (ending November 2025), Oracle reported total revenue of $14.1 billion, with cloud infrastructure (IaaS) revenue growing 68% year-over-year to $4.1 billion. Total remaining performance obligations surged to $130 billion, reflecting strong demand for AI infrastructure capacity.<ref>"Oracle Announces Fiscal Year 2026 Second Quarter Financial Results". Oracle. December 10, 2025. Retrieved March 20, 2026.</ref>

Products and services

Oracle provides cloud infrastructure, AI services, database and database management software, enterprise applications, analytics, and developer tools that help businesses manage their data, operations, and IT environments.<ref name=":4" />

Software applications

Oracle provides software applications, such as integrated enterprise software applications, Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, human capital management (HCM), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management (SCM).<ref name=":4" /><ref>"9 top ERP software picks for the retail industry | TechTarget". Search ERP. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref>

Databases

The Oracle Database was released in 2004 as 10g. Subsequently, the product was released several times, with the newest issue released as 12c in 2018. Oracle released its Autonomous Database in 2018, Oracle Database 23ai in 2024, and issued its newest release Oracle AI Database 26ai in 2025.<ref>Erickson, Jeff. "Oracle BrandVoice: 2018: The Year The Database Went Autonomous". Forbes. Archived from the original on June 12, 2024. Retrieved December 15, 2025.</ref><ref>"Oracle renames Database 23c to 23ai, makes it generally available". InfoWorld. Retrieved December 15, 2025.</ref><ref>"Oracle Database". endoflife.date. September 14, 2025. Retrieved December 15, 2025.</ref><ref>Shimmin, Brad. "Oracle AI World 2025: Is the Database the Center of the AI Universe Again?". Futurum. Retrieved December 15, 2025.</ref>

Additionally, Oracle Corporation acquired and developed the following additional database technologies:

• Berkeley DB, which offers embedded database processing
• Oracle Rdb, a relational database system running on OpenVMS platforms. Oracle acquired Rdb in 1994 from Digital Equipment Corporation. Oracle has since made many enhancements to this product and development continues as of 2008.
• TimesTen, which features in-memory database operations
• Oracle Essbase, which continues the Hyperion Essbase tradition of multi-dimensional database management
• MySQL, a relational database management system licensed under the GNU General Public License, initially developed by MySQL AB
• Oracle NoSQL Database, a scalable, distributed key-value NoSQL database<ref>Taft, Darryl K (October 18, 2011). "Oracle to Boost Data Management With Endeca Buy". eWeek. Ziff Davis. Retrieved November 3, 2011. Oracle also announced the Oracle NoSQL Database, a distributed, highly scalable, key-value database.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)</ref>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr">Middleware</span>

Main article: Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a family of middleware software products, including application server, system integration, business process management (BPM), user interaction, content management, identity management and business intelligence (BI) products.

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES), Oracle's enterprise-search offering, gives users the ability to search for content across multiple locations, including websites, XML files, file servers, content management systems, enterprise resource planning systems, customer relationship management systems, business intelligence systems, and databases.

Product Lines

Oracle Applications, software sold by Oracle based on its own database, first appeared in the late 1980s. Oracle Corporation maintains a number of product lines, such as:

• Oracle E-Business Suite
• PeopleSoft Enterprise
  • PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne (Later renamed, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne)
  • PeopleSoft World (Later renamed, JD Edwards World)
• Siebel
• JD Edwards
• Merchandise Operations Management (Formerly Retek)
• Planning & Optimisation
• Store Operations (Formerly 360Commerce)

Enterprise management

Main article: Oracle Enterprise Manager

Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) is a web-based monitoring and management tool for Oracle products (and for some third-party software), including database management, middleware management, application management, hardware and virtualization management and cloud management.<ref>Jackson, Joab (July 2, 2013). "Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c gears up for the private cloud". InfoWorld. Retrieved March 12, 2014.</ref>

The Primavera products of Oracle's Construction & Engineering Global Business Unit (CEGBU) consist of project-management software.<ref>Harris, Paul Eastwood (2010). Project Planning and Scheduling Using Primavera P6: For All Industries Including Version 4 to 7; Planning and Progressing Project Schedules with and Without Roles and Resources in an Established Enterprise Environment. Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd. pp. 2–1. ISBN 978-1-921059-34-6. Retrieved April 29, 2015. Primavera is an Enterprise Project Management software package that enables many projects to be managed in one database.</ref>

Development software

Oracle Corporation's tools for developing applications include (among others):

• Oracle Designer – a CASE tool which integrates with Oracle Developer Suite
• Oracle Developer – which consists of Oracle Forms, Oracle Discoverer and Oracle Reports
• Oracle JDeveloper, a freeware IDE
• NetBeans, a Java-based software-development platform
• Oracle APEX – low-code platform for web-oriented development
• Oracle SQL Developer, an integrated development environment for working with SQL-based databases
• Oracle SQL*Plus Worksheet, a component of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
• OEPE, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse
• Open Java Development Kit
• Oracle Developer Studio – a software generation system for the development of C, C++, Fortran, and Java software
• Oracle Visual Builder Studio

Operating systems

Oracle Corporation develops and supports two operating systems: Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux.

Hardware

Oracle Exadata and Exalogic

• The Sun hardware range acquired by Oracle Corporation's purchase of Sun Microsystems
• Oracle SPARC T-series servers and M-series mainframes developed and released after Sun acquisition
• Engineered systems: pre-engineered and pre-assembled hardware/software bundles for enterprise use
  • Exadata Database Machine – hardware/software integrated storage<ref>Grancher, Eric (May 15, 2009). "Oracle and storage IOs, explanations and experience at CERN" (PDF). CERN-IT-Note-2009-005. Geneva: CERN. p. 4. Retrieved January 17, 2010. The Oracle Exadata storage server version 1 is a solution developed by Oracle and HP in which part of the processing, normally performed by the database instance, is performed at the storage system level.</ref>
  • Exalogic Elastic Cloud – hardware/software integrated application server
  • Exalytics In-Memory Machine – hardware/software integrated in-memory analytics server<ref>King, Rachel (July 15, 2013). "Oracle Exalytics in-memory machine updated to analyze larger data sets". ZDNet. Retrieved March 12, 2014.</ref>
  • Oracle Database Appliance<ref>Vijayan, Jaikumar (September 22, 2011). "New Oracle database appliance aims at small, mid-size firms: Analysts don't expect Database Appliance to cannibalize Oracle's Exadata enterprise offering". Computerworld. Retrieved January 8, 2012. The tightly integrated hardware, software and storage bundle features Oracle Database11g Release 2 and Real Application Clusters software running on a 2-node, 24-processor core, Sun Fire server cluster hardware.</ref>
  • Big Data Appliance – integrated map-reduce/big data solution<ref>"Oracle Unveils the Oracle Big Data Appliance" (Press release). Oracle Corporation. October 3, 2011. Retrieved April 17, 2015.</ref>
  • SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 – a general purpose engineered system<ref>"Oracle Unveils the World's Fastest General Purpose Engineered System - the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4" (Press release). Oracle Corporation. September 26, 2011. Retrieved February 18, 2012.</ref>

Services

Oracle Cloud

Oracle Cloud is a cloud computing service offered by Oracle Corporation providing servers, storage, network, applications and services through a global network of Oracle Corporation managed data centers. The company allows these services to be provisioned on demand over the Internet.<ref>Saygili, Okcan Yasin (2017). Oracle IaaS: Quick Reference Guide to Cloud Solutions. Apress. ISBN 978-1-4842-2832-6.</ref>

Oracle Cloud provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Data as a Service (DaaS). These services are used to build, deploy, integrate and extend applications in the cloud.

Oracle has continued to make updates to its generative AI service, which is built and supported on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and large language models (LLM) from Cohere as of 2023,<ref>say, Sebastian Moss Have your (February 19, 2026). "Oracle invests in Cohere, plans to integrate generative AI tools into its cloud". www.datacenterdynamics.com. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref> Meta's Llama as of 2024,<ref>Zulhusni, Muhammad (December 12, 2024). "Oracle partners with Meta to power Llama AI models". Cloud Computing News. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref> and xAI's Grok 3 as of 2025.<ref>Nellis, Stephen. "Oracle cloud to add xAI's Grok 3 model to lineup for corporate customers".</ref> The company has also been working to integrate generative AI into its other services.<ref>"Oracle has a better generative AI strategy, analysts say". InfoWorld. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref><ref>"Oracle unveils its API-led generative AI service with Cohere's LLMs". InfoWorld. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref> In April 2025, Oracle incorporated HeatWave GenAI into its database.<ref>Westfall, Ron; Dickens, Steven. "Oracle HeatWave GenAI: AI Innovation Without Data Movement or Added Expense". Futurum. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref> In September 2025, Oracle and OpenAI signed a $300 billion contract for 4.5 gigawatts of power capacity over five years.<ref>Jin, Berber (September 10, 2025). "Exclusive | Oracle, OpenAI Sign $300 Billion Cloud Deal". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref> In October 2025, Oracle and Microsoft announced a partnership to enhance supply chain efficiency and responsiveness for manufacturers.<ref>Fatima, Maham. "Microsoft, Oracle Partner to Boost Supply Chain Efficiency for Manufacturers with Real-Time Data". Yahoo! Finance.</ref> It was also announced that Oracle will offer cloud services using Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming MI450 artificial intelligence chips.<ref>"Oracle to offer cloud services using AMD's upcoming AI chips".</ref>

Marketing

Sales practices

In 1990, Oracle laid off 10% (about 400 people) of its work force because of accounting errors.<ref name="zdnet200620" /> This crisis came about because of Oracle's "up-front" marketing strategy, in which sales people urged potential customers to buy the largest possible amount of software all at once. The sales people then booked the value of future license sales in the current quarter, thereby increasing their bonuses.<ref>Abelson, Ree (June 23, 1996). "Truth or Consequences? Hardly". The New York Times.</ref> This became a problem when the future sales subsequently failed to materialize. Oracle eventually had to restate its earnings twice, and also settled (out of court) class-action lawsuits arising from its having overstated its earnings. Ellison stated in 1992 that Oracle had made "an incredible business mistake".<ref name="zdnet200620">Oracle cuts rewards for last-minute deals Archived December 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Gilbert, Alorie (June 20, 2002). CNET News.com via zdnetasia.com</ref>

Humphries described the cause—"building for years"—as a combination of technical problems that benefited rivals, and the sales force using side letters and other improper tactics to meet the company's longstanding goal of doubling revenue each year. Ellison hired ("bring in adults", Jerry Held said) new executives Jeff Henley and Raymond J. Lane, who helped the company recover from what Ken Jacobs later described as a "near death experience", in which Oracle required an investment from a Japanese steel company to meet payroll.

Competition

The relational database industry was unusually concentrated. Besides being headquartered near each other in the San Francisco Bay area, database technology experts attended the same universities and served on the same standards committees (with Jim Gray serving as neutral arbiter as companies tried to get competing proposals enacted).<ref name="rdbmsgrowingandselling20070613">"RDBMS Workshop: Growing and Selling" (PDF) (Interview). Interviewed by Luanne Johnson. Computer History Museum. June 13, 2007. Retrieved May 30, 2025.</ref> Sales and marketing people were both fierce rivals and often moved between the companies, even as engineers socialized with each other. The smaller, later-founded database vendors viewed Oracle as their top enemy<ref name="rdbmsingressybase20070613">"RDBMS Workshop: Ingres and Sybase" (PDF) (Interview). Interviewed by Doug Jerger. Computer History Museum. June 13, 2007. Retrieved May 30, 2025.</ref>—the "evil empire", said Bob MacDonald of Informix Software— while Humphries described his company as "the Klingons of" the bay.

Held later described his company's philosophy as "it's not good enough for Oracle to win. It was important for somebody else to lose". Ingres was its first major competitor; Oracle's strategy of focusing on one opponent at a time—even publicly complimenting other rivals "to take the pressure off", Held said—while effective, caused it to neglect Sybase as a threat. Conversely, when Sybase had technical problems "it was: how do you put every ounce of product marketing, sales effort and focus on that". IBM's endorsement of SQL in Db2 in the early 1980s benefited Oracle and forced rivals like Ingres and Informix Corporation to adopt SQL to compete.<ref name="morgenthaler20051208">Morgenthaler, Gary (December 8, 2005). "Oral History of Gary Morgenthaler" (PDF) (Interview). Interviewed by Luann Johnson. Computer History Museum. p. 18. Retrieved May 30, 2025.</ref> Oracle acknowledged IBM as the standard while emphasizing its own superiority, touting "total IBM SQL compatibility" while IBM's software ran "only on IBM mainframes".<ref name="oracle19850520">"Oracle announces portable version of IBM SQL/DS and DB2". Computerworld (Advertisement). Vol. XIX, no. 20. May 20, 1985. p. 47. Retrieved June 7, 2025.</ref> By the mid-1980s the company described its database as "the last DBMS", bragging that Oracle now had larger database revenue than dBASE maker Ashton-Tate,<ref name="oracle19880118">"The Last DBMS". InfoWorld. Vol. 10, no. 3. January 18, 1988. p. 9. Retrieved May 25, 2025.</ref> and stating that Microsoft, Ashton-Tate, and Sybase's planned Microsoft SQL Server "jumped on Oracle's SQL bandwagon".<ref name="mace19880118">Mace, Scott (January 18, 1988). "Ashton-Tate, Microsoft Join Forces To Introduce SQL Database Server". InfoWorld. Vol. 10, no. 3. pp. 1, 8. Retrieved May 25, 2025.</ref>

MacDonald credited Oracle with "being marketing oriented before any of the competitors ... pushing the envelope on selling the future way ahead of the rest of us". Stu Schuster of Sybase said "Larry taught us a lot about marketing". While other database companies' brochures emphasized technical features, Oracle advertisements showed an Oracle jet fighter shooting down Ashton-Tate and Borland biplanes;<ref name="oracle19920511">"PC Week Shoot-Out? More Like The Oracle Card Blowout". InfoWorld (advertisement). Vol. 14, no. 19. May 11, 1992. p. 13. Retrieved March 10, 2026.</ref><ref name="rdbmsfinancing20070612"/> dBASE, IBM, and Db2 were among the many competitors Oracle marketing criticized by name. Conversely, another Oracle ad quoted Microsoft's Bill Gates, Sun's Scott McNealy, Hewlett-Packard's John A. Young, and Apple Computer's John Sculley as agreeing with Ellison on Oracle's database breakthroughs.<ref name="oracle19920615">"What Have Bill Gates, Scott McNealy, John Sculley, John Young And Larry Ellison Agreed To Cooperate On?". Computerworld. Vol. XXVI, no. 24. June 15, 1992. pp. 7, 9. Retrieved June 27, 2025.</ref> Larry Rowe of Ingres said "you could never come up with a strategy to beat Oracle because whatever you said today, two days later Ellison was saying it with more marketing dollars". Jacobs said, by contrast:

It really surprises me when people say Oracle's a great marketing machine because by definition, if you think a company has great marketing, they don't. If you think they have great technology then they do have a great marketing machine. Larry's belief has fundamentally always been that marketing isn't critical; he's famous for saying, "If you're not building the product and you're not selling it, tell me what it is you do." Because those are the things that he felt were important. So marketing has never been a focus.

The "benchmark wars" began in the early 1980s; Roger Sippl of Informix said that when his company's product beat Oracle on 27 of 30 benchmarks, advertisements titled "Oracle wins again!" appeared citing the three it won,<ref name="rdbmsinformix20070612">"RDBMS Workshop: Informix" (PDF) (Interview). Interviewed by Luanne Johnson. Computer History Museum. June 12, 2007. Retrieved May 30, 2025.</ref> and Ellison allegedly called Dave DeWitt at the University of Wisconsin after he developed a benchmark unfavorable to Oracle, threatening to get the professor fired. Schuster and Held recalled "a not very pleasant environment because it was so directly competitive". They and Sippl described "a vicious cycle" of companies battling each other over, for example, whose distributed database had the best two-phase commit:<ref name="oracle19920914">"Two-Phase Commit Sybase vs. Oracle7". Computerworld (advertisement). Vol. XXVI, no. 37. September 14, 1992. p. 9. Retrieved February 15, 2026.</ref>

The ads weren't to let me show you how my product helps you solve your business problem, Mr. Customer. It's let me tell you how much better I am than the guy down the street to the point of taking out billboards.

Even IBM participated in the "billboard wars". By 1995 Oracle had 44% of the $2.4 billion relational database market; Sybase had 17% and Informix had 16%. By 1996 Informix, after acquiring Illustra, became Oracle's most important rival.<ref name="clark19961202">Clark, Don (December 2, 1996). "Informix Revamps Databases With Approach to Multimedia". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved May 31, 2025.</ref> The intense war between Informix CEO Phil White and Ellison made front-page news in Silicon Valley for three years. Informix claimed that Oracle had hired away Informix engineers to disclose important trade secrets about an upcoming product. Informix finally dropped its lawsuit against Oracle in 1997.<ref>Galante, Suzanne (June 9, 1997). "Informix drops Oracle lawsuit". CNET.</ref> Held said

And, in one year, we kind of turned the focus from Sybase to Informix, and basically they never knew what hit them. It was such a concerted effort. I mean, it was amazing how you could get product management, marketing, and sales focused. We had a thing, "Where in the world is Phil White," because Phil White was their best sales person. If he went into an account, one of our best guys was in right after them to make sure that they didn't win that business. It was such amazingly focused effort. And within 12 months, Informix was basically on the floor.

In November 2005, a book detailing the war between Oracle and Informix was published, titled The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White. It gave a detailed chronology of the battle of Informix against Oracle, and how Informix Software's CEO Phil White landed in jail because of his obsession with overtaking Ellison.

After what Held described as "the period of time where some of the wheels came off, first at Ingres then at Sybase, and then at Informix", Oracle was the only substantial independent database vendor until Microsoft SQL Server became widespread in the late 1990s<ref name="rdbmslateryears20070612">"RDBMS Plenary Session: The Later Years" (PDF) (Interview). Interviewed by Burton Grad. Computer History Museum. June 12, 2007. Retrieved May 30, 2025.</ref> and IBM acquired Informix Software in 2001 (to complement its Db2 database). Oracle has competed for new database licenses on UNIX, GNU, and Windows operating systems primarily against IBM's Db2 and Microsoft SQL Server.<ref>Support, Spinnaker (January 17, 2024). "Comparative List of Oracle Competitors". Spinnaker Support. Retrieved December 15, 2025.</ref>

In 2004, Oracle's sales grew at a rate of 14.5% to $6.2&nbsp;billion, giving it 41.3% and the top share of the relational-database market (InformationWeek – March 2005), with market share estimated at up to 44.6% in 2005 by some sources.<ref name="Oracle.com">"Infrastructure &#124; Oracle Analyst Reports" (PDF). Oracle.com. September 7, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 31, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2011.</ref> Oracle Corporation's main competitors in the database arena remain IBM Db2 and Microsoft SQL Server, and to a lesser extent Sybase and Teradata,<ref name="Oracle.com" /> with free databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL also having a significant<ref>DB-Engines Ranking - popularity ranking of database management systems Archived February 21, 2020, at the Wayback Machine. Db-engines. Retrieved July 14, 2013.</ref> share of the market. EnterpriseDB, based on PostgreSQL, has recently made inroads<ref>Lai, Eric (November 20, 2006). "Vonage places call for EnterpriseDB database". Computerworld. Archived from the original on May 27, 2007.</ref> by proclaiming that its product delivers Oracle compatibility features at a much lower price-point.

As of 2007 Oracle's top competitors are IBM, Microsoft, and in applications,<ref>Pang, Albert (December 24, 2021). "Top 10 ERP Software Vendors, Market Size and Market Forecast 2020-2025". Apps Run The World. Retrieved July 11, 2022.</ref><ref>Pang, Albert (December 24, 2021). "Top 10 Utilities Software Vendors, Market Size and Market Forecast 2020-2025". Apps Run The World. Retrieved July 11, 2022.</ref> SAP. On March 22, 2007, Oracle sued SAP, accusing them of fraud and unfair competition.<ref>Gullo, Karen & Guglielmo, Connie (March 22, 2007). "Oracle Claims Rival SAP Stole Software and Data (Update4)". Bloomberg. Retrieved March 22, 2007.</ref>

In the market for business intelligence software, many other software companies—small and large—have successfully competed in quality with Oracle and SAP products. Business intelligence vendors can be categorized into the "big four" consolidated BI firms such as Oracle, who has entered BI market through a recent trend of acquisitions (including Hyperion Solutions), and the independent "pure play" vendors such as MicroStrategy, Actuate, and SAS.<ref>Pendse, Nigel (March 7, 2008). "Consolidations in the BI industry". The OLAP Report. Archived from the original on July 10, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2010.</ref>

Oracle Financials was ranked in the Top 20 Most Popular Accounting Software Infographic by Capterra in 2014, beating out SAP and a number of their other competitors.<ref>"Best Donation Management Software - 2015 Reviews of the Most Popular Systems". Retrieved April 17, 2015.</ref>

Oracle and SAP

From 1988, Oracle Corporation and the German company SAP AG had a decade-long history of cooperation, beginning with the integration of SAP's R/3 enterprise application suite with Oracle's relational database products. Despite the SAP partnership with Microsoft, and the increasing integration of SAP applications with Microsoft products (such as Microsoft SQL Server, a competitor to Oracle Database), Oracle and SAP continue their cooperation. According to Oracle Corporation, the majority of SAP's customers use Oracle databases.<ref>"Oracle – the No.1 Database for Deploying SAP Applications". Oracle Corporation. Retrieved November 11, 2008. Two thirds of SAP customers around the world, in every industry, choose to run their applications on Oracle databases.</ref>

In 2004, Oracle began to increase its interest in the enterprise-applications market (in 1989, Oracle had already released Oracle Financials). A series of acquisitions by Oracle Corporation began, most notably with those of PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, and Hyperion.

SAP recognized that Oracle had started to become a competitor in a market where SAP had the leadership, and saw an opportunity to lure in customers from those companies that Oracle Corporation had acquired. SAP would offer those customers special discounts on the licenses for its enterprise applications.

Oracle Corporation would resort to a similar strategy, by advising SAP customers to get "OFF SAP" (a play on the words of the acronym for its middleware platform "Oracle Fusion for SAP"),<ref>"Oracle Helping SAP Customers to get 'OFF SAP'" (Press release). Oracle Corporation. June 14, 2005.</ref> and also by providing special discounts on licenses and services to SAP customers who chose Oracle Corporation products.

Oracle and SAP (the latter through its recently acquired subsidiary TomorrowNow) competed in the third-party enterprise software maintenance and support market. On March 22, 2007, Oracle filed a lawsuit against SAP. In Oracle Corporation v. SAP AG Oracle alleged that TomorrowNow, which provides discount support for legacy Oracle product lines, used the accounts of former Oracle customers to systematically download patches and support documents from Oracle's website and to appropriate them for SAP's use.<ref>"Oracle sues SAP". Oracle Corporation. July 3, 2007.</ref> Some analysts have suggested the suit could form part of a strategy by Oracle Corporation to decrease competition with SAP in the market for third-party enterprise software maintenance and support.<ref>Gohring, Nancy; Montalbano, Elizabeth. "Maintenance Contracts at Heart of Oracle, SAP Dispute". CIO India. Archived from the original on May 19, 2008. Retrieved June 9, 2008.

The lawsuit As barometer: SAP finally scores big with TomorrowNow Archived March 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Joshua Greenbaum, March 22, 2007, ZDNet</ref><ref>[email protected] (September 23, 2020). "Oracle & SAP are waging a secret war against third-party support". Support Revolution. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref>

On July 3, 2007, SAP admitted that TomorrowNow employees had made "inappropriate downloads" from the Oracle support website. However, it claims that SAP personnel and SAP customers had no access to Oracle intellectual property via TomorrowNow. SAP's CEO Henning Kagermann stated that "Even a single inappropriate download is unacceptable from my perspective. We regret very much that this occurred." Additionally, SAP announced that it had "instituted changes" in TomorrowNow's operational oversight.<ref>"SAP Responds to Oracle Complaint" (PDF) (Press release). SAP. July 3, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 26, 2009. Retrieved September 2, 2016.</ref>

On November 23, 2010, a U.S. district court jury in Oakland, California, found that SAP AG must pay Oracle Corp $1.3&nbsp;billion for copyright infringement, awarding damages that could be the largest-ever for copyright infringement. While admitting liability, SAP estimated the damages at no more than $40&nbsp;million, while Oracle claimed that they are at least $1.65&nbsp;billion. The awarded amount is one of the 10 or 20 largest jury verdicts in U.S. legal history. SAP said they were disappointed by the verdict and might appeal.<ref>Levine, Dan (November 23, 2010). "SAP to pay Oracle $1.3&nbsp;billion in landmark decision". Reuters. Retrieved November 23, 2010.</ref> On September 1, 2011, a federal judge overturned the judgment and offered a reduced amount or a new trial, calling Oracle's original award "grossly" excessive.<ref>"Judge overturns Oracle's $1.3B award against SAP". ITworld. September 1, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2011.</ref> Oracle chose a new trial.

On August 3, 2012, SAP and Oracle agreed on a judgment for $306 million in damages, pending approval from the U.S. district court judge, "to save time and expense of [a] new trial". After the accord has been approved, Oracle can ask a federal appeals court to reinstate the earlier jury verdict. In addition to the damages payment, SAP has already paid Oracle $120 million for its legal fees.<ref>"Oracle Says SAP to Pay $306 Million in Copyright Deal". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. August 3, 2012. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012. Retrieved August 6, 2012.</ref>

Slogans

• "Information driven"<ref>Aryal, Mina (May 24, 2015). "Best Slogans of Information Technology Companies". ICT Frame Technology. Retrieved January 19, 2019.</ref><ref>"A List of 120+ Slogans of Information Technology Companies". Advergize. June 12, 2014. Retrieved January 19, 2019.</ref>
• For the Oracle Database: "Can't break it, can't break in"<ref>Lemos, Robert (February 6, 2002). "Guru says Oracle's 9i is indeed breakable". CNET News. Retrieved October 5, 2011.</ref> and "Unbreakable"<ref>Davidson, Mary Ann (February 2002). "Unbreakable: Oracle's Commitment to Security" (PDF). An Oracle White Paper. Redwood Shores, California: Oracle Corporation. p. 2. Retrieved March 21, 2010. Beginning in November 2001, Oracle began a marketing campaign: Unbreakable. The security portions of the campaign reference Oracle's 14 independent security evaluations [...]</ref>
• "Enabling the Information Age"<ref>"Oracle8 Database Messaging". CIO. 10 (21): 7. September 15, 1997.</ref>
• "Enabling the Information Age Through Network Computing"<ref>"Oracle Discoverer User Guide". gkmc.utah.edu. Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved January 19, 2019.</ref><ref>Hummeltenberg, Wilhelm (April 9, 2013). Information Management for Business and Competitive Intelligence and Excellence: Proceedings der Frühjahrstagung Wirtschaftsinformatik '98 (in Deutsch). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-322-84950-2.</ref><ref>"Developer/2000 Guidelines for Building Applications". Archived from the original on April 18, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2020.</ref>
• As of 2008: "The Information Company"<ref>Farber, Dan (December 9, 2004). "Oracle joins or refashions the information age". ZDNet. Retrieved October 9, 2014.</ref>
• As of 2010: "Software. Hardware. Complete."<ref>"Oracles introduces new 10GbE products. Software. Hardware. Complete?". Electronic Component News. Yankee Group. July 14, 2010. Archived from the original on February 19, 2021. Retrieved January 19, 2019.</ref>
• As of late 2010: "Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together"<ref>"Oracle Engineered Systems-The Newest Flavor of IT Systems". Database Trends and Applications. September 26, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2019.</ref><ref>"Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together" (PDF). July 17, 2014. Retrieved January 19, 2019.</ref>
• As of mid 2015: "Integrated Cloud Applications and Platform Services"<ref>"Oracle Brand | Oracle Tagline Lockup". www.oracle.com. Retrieved January 19, 2019.</ref>

Corporate affairs

Finances

Sales by region (2025)<ref>"Oracle Corporation: Business Segments and Geographical Breakdown of Revenue". www.marketscreener.com. Retrieved September 11, 2025.</ref>

Region	share
United States	55.9%
United Kingdom	4.5%
Germany	3.2%
Japan	3.1%
Other countries	33.4%

Oracle was ranked No. 82 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.<ref>"Fortune 500 Companies 2018: Who Made the List". Fortune. Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved November 10, 2018.</ref> According to Bloomberg, Oracle's CEO-to-employee pay ratio is 1,205:1. The CEO's compensation in 2017 was $108,295,023. Oracle is one of the approved employers of ACCA and the median employee compensation rate was $89,887.<ref>Melin, Anders. "Oracle's $108 Million Comp for Hurd and Catz Distorts CEO Pay Ratio". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on October 5, 2018. Retrieved November 13, 2018.</ref>

ORCL"]. Macrotrends. Retrieved October 22, 2018.</ref>

Year	Revenue<br />in million US$	Net Income<br />in million US$	EOY adj price per<br />share in US$	Employees
2005	11,799	2,886	9.98
2006	14,380	3,381	14.01
2007	17,996	4,274	18.46
2008	22,430	5,521	14.49
2009	23,252	5,593	20.20
2010	26,820	6,135	25.98
2011	35,622	8,547	21.44
2012	37,121	9,981	28.25
2013	37,180	10,925	32.68	122,000
2014	38,275	10,955	38.88	122,000
2015	38,226	9,938	32.02	132,000
2016	37,047	8,901	34.23	136,000
2017	37,728	9,335	42.76	138,000
2018	39,831	3,825	41.33	137,000
2019	39,506	11,083	49.32	136,000
2020	39,068	10,135	61.26	135,000
2021	40,479	13,746	83.85	132,000
2022	42,440	6,717	79.95	143,000
2023	49,954	8,503	104.69	164,000
2024	52,961	10,467	165.26	159,000
2025	57,399	12,443		162,000

Personnel

• Larry Ellison: ex-executive chairman and CTO (since September 2014), co-founder of the company, previously CEO (1977–2014),<ref name="nytimes-ellison-step-down">Hardy, Quentin (September 18, 2014). "Larry Ellison to Step Down as Oracle's Chief". The New York Times. Retrieved September 19, 2014.</ref> previously chairman (1990–2004). As of September 2021, he owned 42% of the company.<ref name="toc162163_22" /> As of 2025 Ellison remains a top executive but no longer CEO.<ref name="pbs">"TikTok's algorithm to be licensed to U.S. joint venture led by tech giant Oracle and investment firm Silver Lake". PBS News. September 23, 2025. Retrieved September 25, 2025.</ref>
• Safra Catz: executive vice chair (since September 2025), previously CEO (2014–2025),<ref name="nytimes-ellison-step-down" /> co-president (since 2004) and CFO.<ref>Hickens, Michael (March 21, 2013). "New Rivals Clip Oracle's Wings". The Wall Street Journal (paper). pp. B1–2. Retrieved March 23, 2013.</ref> In 2016, she was ranked tenth on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list.<ref>"Safra Catz". Fortune. September 8, 2016. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019. Retrieved September 14, 2017.</ref>
• Jeff Henley: vice chairman (since September 2014), previously chairman (2004–2014) and CFO (1991–2004).
• Mark Hurd: former CEO (2014–2019),<ref name="nytimes-ellison-step-down" /> previously co-president (2010–2014). In 2007, Mark Hurd was ranked Template:Numero on Fortune's list of the 25 Most Powerful People in Business.<ref>"25 most powerful people in business". Fortune. Retrieved April 17, 2015.</ref> He died in 2019.
• Charles Phillips: former co-president and director (2003–2010); replaced by Mark Hurd.
• Bob Miner: co-founder of the company and co-architect of Oracle Database. Led product design and development for Oracle Database (1977–1992). Spun off a technology group within Oracle in 1992. Oracle board member until 1993. He died in 1994.
• Ed Oates: co-founder of the company. Retired from Oracle in 1996.
• Umang Gupta: former vice president and general manager (1981–1984). Wrote the first business plan for the company. He died in 2022.
• Bruce Scott: The first hired employee (after the co-founders; employee number 4) at Oracle (then Software Development Laboratories). Scott served as the co-author and co-architect of the Oracle database up to Version 3. He left Oracle in 1982.<ref name="founders" /><ref>"Scott/Tiger in Oracle". September 8, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2020.</ref>
• Marc Benioff: former protégé of Ellison and the youngest to be promoted to vice president at the time. He left to found and lead Salesforce in 1999.<ref>Kim, Eugene (August 12, 2015). "The epic 30-year bromance of billionaire CEOs Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff". Insider.</ref><ref>"Larry ups the ante". The Economist. February 5, 2004.</ref>

Board of directors

As of September 2025, the company's board consisted of the following directors:<ref>"Oracle Board of Directors". www.oracle.com.</ref>

• Larry Ellison, executive chairman and CTO
• Safra Catz, executive vice chair
• Jeff Henley, vice chairman
• Awo Ablo, President of Programs and Strategy
• Jeffrey S. Berg, chairman of Northside Services and former CEO of International Creative Management
• Michael Boskin, Professor of Economics and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow at Stanford University
• Bruce R. Chizen, Senior Adviser to Permira Advisers and Former CEO of Adobe
• George H. Conrades, former CEO of Akamai Technologies
• Rona Fairhead, Baroness Fairhead, former UK minister of state at the Department for International Trade
• Charles Wick Moorman IV, former CEO of Amtrak and the Norfolk Southern Railway
• Leon Panetta, former CIA director and United States Secretary of Defense
• William G. Parrett, former CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
• Naomi O. Seligman, Senior Partner at Ostriker von Simson

Controversies

Trashgate

In 2000, Oracle attracted attention from the computer industry and the press after hiring private investigators to uncover unfavorable information from organizations sympathetic to rival Microsoft. During the investigation, Oracle was accused of attempting to purchase trash from a janitor at the Association for Competitive Technology. This resulted in an antitrust trial against Microsoft.<ref>Markoff, John; Richtel, Matt (June 28, 2000). "Oracle Hired a Detective Agency To Investigate Microsoft's Allies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 23, 2026.</ref>

The Chairman of Oracle Corporation, Larry Ellison, defended his company's hiring of an East Coast detective agency, calling the snooping a "public service". The investigation reportedly included a $1,200 offer to janitors at the Association for Competitive Technology to look through Microsoft's trash.<ref>Yarow, Jay. "LARRY ELLISON: How He Tried To Disrupt Microsoft And Failed". Business Insider. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref>

"Can't break it, can't break in"

In 2002, Oracle Corporation marketed many of its products using the slogan "Can't break it, can't break in", or "Unbreakable".<ref>"Bugs bust open 'unbreakable' Oracle 9i". ZDNet. February 7, 2002. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012.</ref>

However, two weeks after its introduction, David Litchfield, Alexander Kornbrust, Cesar Cerrudo and others demonstrated a suite of successful attacks against Oracle products.<ref>"Oracle security claim". The Register. January 16, 2002.</ref><ref>"How to hack unbreakable Oracle". The Register. February 7, 2002.</ref> Oracle Corporation's chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson said that, rather than representing a literal claim of Oracle's products' impregnability, she saw the campaign in the context of fourteen independent security evaluations<ref>"Oracle list of major Security certifications" (PDF). Oracle Corporation.</ref> that Oracle Corporation's database server had passed.

Relationship with John Ashcroft

In 2004, then-United States Attorney General John Ashcroft sued Oracle Corporation to prevent it from acquiring a multibillion-dollar intelligence contract. After Ashcroft's resignation from government, he founded a lobbying firm, The Ashcroft Group, which Oracle hired in 2005. With the group's help, Oracle went on to acquire the contract.<ref>"Ashcroft breaks with tradition by lobbying, has earned $269,000". Chicago Tribune. January 10, 2006.</ref>

Cover Oregon Healthcare Exchange

Oracle Corporation was awarded a contract by the State of Oregon's Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to develop Cover Oregon, the state's healthcare exchange website, as part of the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. When the site tried to go live on October 1, 2013, it failed, and registrations had to be taken using paper applications until the site could be fixed.<ref>"Oracle was Primary Cause of Oregon's Failed Health Insurance Exchange Website" (PDF). House.gov.</ref>

In August 2014, Oracle Corporation sued Cover Oregon for breach of contract,<ref>Manning, Jeff (August 8, 2014). "Cover Oregon: Oracle comes out swinging, files lawsuit, accuses Kitzhaber of 'campaign'". Oregon Live. Retrieved August 27, 2014.</ref> and then later that month the state of Oregon sued Oracle Corporation, in a civil complaint for breach of contract, fraud, filing false claims and "racketeering".<ref>Gallagher, Sean (August 25, 2014). "Oregon Attorney General sues Oracle for 'racketeering activity'". Ars Technica. Retrieved August 27, 2014.</ref> In September 2016, the two sides reached a settlement valued at over $100 million to the state, and a six-year agreement for Oracle to continue modernizing state software and IT.<ref>Foden-Vencil, Kristian (September 15, 2016). "Oregon, Oracle Reach $100 Million Settlement Over Cover Oregon Healthcare Exchange. News | OPB". Oregon Public Broadcast. Archived from the original on September 16, 2016. Retrieved September 16, 2016.</ref><ref>Lucas, Dan. "Who's to blame for the Cover Oregon failure?". Statesman Journal. Retrieved November 13, 2020.</ref><ref>Budnick and Manning, Nick and Jeff (March 19, 2014). "Oracle's Contracts for Cover Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Bypassed Standard Rules, Lacked Teeth". www.govtech.com. Retrieved November 13, 2020.</ref><ref>Turner, Grace-Marie. "Oregon's Failed ObamaCare Exchange Is A Warning For Other States". Forbes. Retrieved November 13, 2020.</ref>

Class action tracking lawsuit

In August 2022, a class action lawsuit was filed against Oracle by the law firm Lieff Cabraser. The lawsuit alleged that Oracle engaged in "deliberate and purposeful surveillance of the general population via their digital and online existence", specifically focusing on Oracle operating a surveillance machine that tracked and recorded personal data in real-time. The litigants alleged that through such surveillance, the company violated the Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, California's state constitution, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, competition law, and California Common Law.<ref name=":0">"Class-Action Lawsuit Accuses Oracle of Tracking 5 Billion People". PCMAG. August 23, 2022. Retrieved August 24, 2022.</ref><ref name=":1">"Oracle Earns Billions Illegally Selling Net User Data, Suit Says - Law360". www.law360.com. Retrieved August 24, 2022.</ref>

The lawsuit was settled in July 2024 for $115 million.<ref>Schuman, Evan. "Oracle's $115 million privacy settlement could change industry data collection methods". CIO. Retrieved September 10, 2024.</ref>

Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Between 2011 and 2024, Oracle was investigated for engaging in bribery practices that violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act across its subsidiaries in South Africa, India, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. In all instances, the company settled with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.<ref>"SEC.gov | SEC Charges Oracle Corporation With FCPA Violations Related to Secret Side Funds in India". www.sec.gov. Retrieved September 28, 2022.</ref><ref>Stempel, Jonathan (September 27, 2022). "Oracle to pay about $23 mln to resolve a second SEC bribery case". Reuters.</ref><ref>Kunert, Paul. "Oracle pays $23 million to the SEC to settle bribery charges". www.theregister.com. Retrieved September 28, 2022.</ref><ref>"Oracle 'no comment' on IFMS corruption allegations - TechCentral". March 11, 2019. Retrieved April 2, 2024.</ref><ref>"SIU takes aim at Oracle in treasury corruption probe - TechCentral". March 28, 2024. Retrieved April 2, 2024.</ref>

Reaction to the Gaza war

Following the beginning of the Gaza war in 2023, Oracle’s top executives, including Safra Catz and Larry Ellison, publicly aligned the company with Israel’s military operations. They issued statements of solidarity, paid double salaries to Israeli employees, and donated to organizations connected to Israel’s wartime response.<ref name="Ynet2025">Ayala Or-El (October 18, 2025). "'We don't mind losing customers': Oracle execs stand with Israel, redefining corporate values". Ynet. Retrieved October 20, 2025.</ref> In 2024, Catz said to Israeli business news outlet CTech, "For employees, it’s clear: if you’re not for America or Israel, don’t work here".<ref name="Shulman 24">Shulman, Sophie (November 14, 2024). "Oracle CEO: "If we continue on our current trajectory, reaching a valuation of a trillion dollars is inevitable"". CTech. Retrieved December 9, 2025.</ref> In 2025, The Intercept spoke with Oracle employees who supported Palestine, but were afraid to speak out in their workplace. Sixty-eight Oracle employees signed an open letter criticizing the company's ties to Israel.<ref name="Gee 25">Gee, Georgia (February 18, 2025). "Poised to Take Over TikTok, Oracle Is Accused of Clamping Down on Pro-Palestine Dissent". The Intercept. Retrieved December 9, 2025.</ref>

Fraud Accusations by the US Department of Justice

On July 29, 2010, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) filed suit against Oracle Corporation alleging fraud. The lawsuit argues that the government received deals inferior to those Oracle gave to its commercial clients. The DoJ added its heft to an already existing whistleblower lawsuit filed by Paul Frascella, who was once senior director of contract services at Oracle.<ref>Skillings, Jon (July 30, 2010). "Justice Department sues Oracle, alleging fraud". CNET. Retrieved November 2, 2021.</ref> It was settled in 2011.<ref>Gross, Grant (October 6, 2011). "Oracle to pay $199.5 million in gov't contracting settlement". Network World. Retrieved November 2, 2021.</ref>

Lawsuit against Google

Main article: Oracle v. Google

Oracle, the plaintiff, acquired ownership of the Java computer programming language when it acquired Sun Microsystems in January 2010.<ref name="ReutersJune2011">Levine, Dan (June 18, 2011). Eastham, Todd (ed.). "Oracle seeks up to $6.1 billion in Google lawsuit". Reuters. Retrieved January 29, 2018.</ref> The Java software includes sets of pre-developed software code to allow programs and apps to accomplish common tasks in a consistent manner. The pre-developed code is organized into separate "packages" which each contain a set of "classes". Each class contains numerous methods, which instruct a program or app to do a certain task. Software developers "became accustomed to using Java's designations at the package, class, and method level".<ref name="Quimbee">"Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc". Quimbee. Retrieved January 29, 2018.</ref>

Oracle and Google (the defendant) tried to negotiate an agreement for Oracle to license Java to Google, which would have allowed Google to use Java in developing programs for mobile devices using the Android operating system. However, the two companies never reached an agreement. After negotiations failed, Google created its own programming platform, which was based on Java, and contained 37 copied Java packages as well as new packages developed by Google.<ref name="Quimbee" />

HP and Oracle lawsuit

On June 15, 2011, HP filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court in Santa Clara, claiming that Oracle had breached an agreement to support the Itanium microprocessor used in HP's high-end enterprise servers.<ref>Clark, Jack (June 16, 2011). "HP unleashes lawyers on Oracle over Itanium support". ZDNet UK. Retrieved June 17, 2011.</ref> Oracle called the lawsuit "an abuse of the judicial process"<ref>"HP, Oracle exchange court jabs in escalating Itanium support showdown". ZDNet. July 7, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2011.</ref> and said that had it known SAP's Léo Apotheker was about to be hired as HP's new CEO, any support for HP's Itanium servers would not have been implied.<ref>"Oracle fires back at HP in Itanium suit, doesn't mince words". ZDNet. August 30, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2011.</ref>

On August 1, 2012, a California judge said in a tentative ruling that Oracle must continue porting its software at no cost until HP discontinues its sales of Itanium-based servers.<ref>Gallagher, Sean (August 1, 2012). "HP wins judgment in Itanium suit against Oracle". Ars Technica. Retrieved July 1, 2016.</ref><ref>McMillan, Robert (August 1, 2012). "HP Wins Big Victory Over Oracle in Battle of the Itanium". Wired. Retrieved August 6, 2012.</ref> HP was awarded $3 billion in damages against Oracle in 2016.<ref>Bright, Peter (June 30, 2016). "HP awarded $3B in damages from Oracle over Itanium database cancelation". Ars Technica. Retrieved July 1, 2016.</ref> HP argued Oracle's canceling support damaged HP's Itanium server brand. Oracle had announced that it would appeal both the decision and damages, but the decision stayed.<ref>Brittain, Blake (June 15, 2021). "Oracle loses bid to upend HP's $3 billion win". Reuters.</ref><ref>Quach, Katyanna (May 17, 2022). "Oracle really does owe HPE $3b after Supreme Court snub". The Register.</ref>

GSA business bidding ban

On April 20, 2012, the US General Services Administration banned Oracle from the most popular portal for bidding on GSA contracts for undisclosed reasons. Oracle has previously used this portal for around four hundred million dollars a year in revenue.<ref>Hoover, J. Nicholas (April 20, 2012). "Feds Banish Oracle From Popular Contract Vehicle". InformationWeek. Retrieved October 4, 2017.</ref> In 2011, Oracle settled with the General Services Administration for $199.5 million in a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act.<ref>"Oracle to Pay $199.5 Million to Settle Overbilling Charges". The New York Times. Bloomberg News. October 7, 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2013.</ref>

Events and acquisitions

Acquisition of Sun Microsystems

Main article: Acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation

In January 2010, Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems—valued at more than $7&nbsp;billion—a move that transformed Oracle from solely a software company to a manufacturer of both software and hardware. The acquisition was delayed for several months by the European Commission because of concerns about MySQL, but was unconditionally approved in the end.<ref>"Mergers: Commission clears Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems" (Press release). European Commission. January 21, 2010. Retrieved April 17, 2015.</ref> In September 2011, U.S. State Department Embassy cables were leaked to WikiLeaks. One cable revealed that the U.S. pressured the E.U. to allow Oracle to acquire Sun.<ref>Mick, Jason (September 1, 2011). "U.S. Pressured EU to Approve the Oracle's Acquisition of Sun". Daily Tech. Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved September 2, 2011.</ref>

The Sun acquisition was closely watched by free software users and some companies, due to the fear that Oracle might end Sun's traditional support of free projects.<ref>Vance, Ashlee (September 21, 2010). "Oracle Growth Plans Worry Rivals and Customers". The New York Times.</ref><ref>Widenius, Monty. "Save MySQL!". Retrieved January 31, 2010. [Signer hereby asks] competition authorities around the world to block Oracle's acquisition of Sun unless one of the structural solutions selected by [signer] below is put in place as a legally binding requirement: (select at least one; all combinations are possible) MySQL must be divested to a suitable third party that can continue to develop it under the GPL. Oracle must commit to a linking exception for applications that use MySQL with the client libraries (for all programming languages), for plugins and libmysqld. MySQL itself remains licensed under the GPL. Oracle must release all past and future versions of MySQL (until December 2012) under the Apache Software License 2.0 or similar permissive license so that developers of applications and derived versions (forks) have flexibility concerning the code.</ref><ref>Paul, Ryan (April 20, 2009). "Oracle buys Sun: understanding the impact on open source". Ars Technica. Retrieved March 6, 2011.</ref><ref>Fiveash, Kelly (March 9, 2010). "Open source boss quits Oracle". The Register.</ref> Since the acquisition, Oracle has discontinued OpenSolaris and StarOffice, and sued Google over the Java patents Oracle acquired from Sun.<ref name="arsjava2">Paul, Ryan (August 14, 2010). "Oracle's Java lawsuit undermines its open source credibility". Ars Technica. Retrieved March 6, 2011.</ref><ref>Weintraub, Seth (August 12, 2010). "Oracle files suit over Android's use of Java". CNN. Archived from the original on November 19, 2010. Retrieved January 31, 2011.</ref>

Cerner acquisition

Main article: Oracle Health

On December 20, 2021, Oracle announced that it agreed to acquire Cerner Corporation (now Oracle Health and Oracle Life Sciences) for approximately US$28.3 billion, creating a dedicated Industry Business Unit within the company. Cerner is the largest international supplier of health information technology, such as electronic health records (EHR), revenue cycle solutions, and biomedical device integration platforms, and has its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, US.<ref name=":2">"Oracle Buys Cerner". Oracle. December 20, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2024.</ref> The deal closed in early July 2022 after receiving final approval from European regulators, making it Oracle's largest acquisition and one of the largest in corporate history.<ref name=":3">Landi, Heather (June 7, 2022). "Oracle closes $23B deal to buy EHR giant Cerner". Fierce Healthcare. Retrieved October 1, 2024.</ref>

Oracle's purchase of Cerner was part of an effort to introduce Oracle products into the healthcare market, particularly in the United States although Oracle plans to expand Cerner's global operations.<ref name=":3" />

In September 2024, Oracle announced new investments and the release of Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant, a generative AI system that automatically creates consultation documentation and proposes orders.<ref>"Oracle CloudWorld 2024 delivers AI, database and OCI updates | TechTarget". Search Cloud Computing. Retrieved December 15, 2025.</ref>

Oracle has acquired the following technology companies:

1. PeopleSoft (2005), an ERP company<ref>Clark, Lindsay (January 2, 2025). "It's been 20 years since Oracle bought two software rivals, changing the market forever". The Register. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref>
2. Siebel (2006), a CRM company<ref>Paige, Michael (February 1, 2006). "Oracle completes Siebel acquisition". MarketWatch. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref>
3. BEA Systems (2008), an enterprise infrastructure software company<ref>Tanaka, Wendy. "BEA Waited And Reaped". Forbes. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref>
4. Dyn (2016), an internet infrastructure company<ref>Finley, Klint. "Why Oracle Just Bought the Company That Brought Down the Internet". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref>
5. DataFox (2018), a predictive intelligence software company<ref>Lunden, Ingrid (October 23, 2018). "Oracle acquires DataFox, a developer of 'predictive intelligence as a service' across millions of company records". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref>
6. Datascience (2018), a data analysis company<ref>Kilgore, Tomi (May 16, 2018). "Oracle Buys Datascience to Boost Big-Data Analytics Offerings". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref>
7. Iridize (2018), a user training company<ref>Stoler, Tofi (September 18, 2025). "Oracle Acquires Tel Aviv-Based User Training Startup Iridize". CTech. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref>
8. LiveData Utilities (2020), a utilities network management company<ref>"LiveData Utilities Acquired by Oracle". Mirus Capital Advisors. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref>
9. GloriaFood (2021), an online ordering and marketing company<ref>"Oracle acquires GloriaFood to expand cloud POS platform apps". Food Truck Operator. July 8, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref>
10. Adi Insights (2022), a workforce management solution company<ref>Brooks, Steve (May 9, 2022). "Oracle buys SuiteApp Time Management vendor". Enterprise Times. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref>
11. FOEX (2022), a software development company for enterprise web application creation<ref>IQ, S&P Capital (November 8, 2022). "Oracle Corporation completed the acquisition of FOEX GmbH. | MarketScreener". www.marketscreener.com. Retrieved March 8, 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)</ref>

Oracle Health data breach

In March 2025, a threat actor claimed to have stolen 6 million data records from Oracle Health (formerly Cerner).<ref>Jones, David (March 28, 2025). "Cybersecurity firms brace for impact of potential Oracle Cloud breach". Cybersecurity Dive. Retrieved September 13, 2025.</ref> Oracle claimed that its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was not breached and that no customer data from it was exposed.<ref>Kovacs, Eduard (March 24, 2025). "Oracle Denies Cloud Breach After Hacker Offers to Sell Data". SecurityWeek. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref> Some legacy Cerner servers experienced unauthorized access, but Oracle has not confirmed the scale of impact.<ref>Diaz, Naomi (April 14, 2025). "Oracle Health sued over alleged data breach affecting US hospitals". Becker's Hospital Review. Retrieved September 13, 2025.</ref> In April 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a warning to Oracle customers to secure their environments.<ref>"CISA Releases Guidance on Credential Risks Associated with Potential Legacy Oracle Cloud Compromise | CISA". www.cisa.gov. April 16, 2025. Retrieved March 8, 2026.</ref><ref>Jones, David (April 17, 2025). "CISA warns companies to secure credentials amid Oracle Cloud breach claims". Cybersecurity Dive. Retrieved September 13, 2025.</ref>

U.S. TikTok's operations

On September 13, 2020, Bloomberg News reported that Oracle won a bidding war with other U.S.-based companies to take over social media company TikTok's operations in the United States following the company's pressure to forcibly be shut down by the Trump administration. Oracle was described as a "trusted tech partner" by TikTok.<ref>Banjo, Shelly; Bass, Dina; Mohsin, Saleha (September 13, 2020). "Oracle Wins Deal for TikTok's U.S. Operations". Bloomberg. Retrieved September 14, 2020.</ref> On September 19, 2020, the Trump administration approved of the sale of TikTok's US operations to Oracle "[delaying] — by one week — restrictions that were originally to take effect" on September 20 as indicated by the United States Department of Commerce.<ref>Fung, Brian (September 19, 2020). "Trump says he has approved a deal for purchase of TikTok". CNN. Retrieved September 19, 2020.</ref>

As September 25, 2025, TikTok was bought by Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi's MGX. Oracle will own 45% of the app in the US, and ByteDance 35% after delays with the ban for the 4th time.<ref>Levy, Ari (September 25, 2025). "Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX will be main investors in TikTok U.S., sources say". CNBC. Retrieved September 27, 2025.</ref><ref>Lindner, Lauren Hirschemmett; Maheshwari, Sapna (September 16, 2025). "Trump Delays TikTok Ban Again as a Deal Takes Shape". The New York Times. Retrieved September 27, 2025.</ref>

Oracle will store data of US TikTok users on its cloud computers,<ref name="reuters">Mason, Jeff; Shepardson, David; Mason, Jeff (September 22, 2025). "Trump team says TikTok deal nears, with Oracle, Silver Lake among investors". Reuters. Retrieved September 25, 2025.</ref> and it will be involved in the new TikTok spinoff's cybersecurity.<ref name="pbs"/>

Anduril partnership

Oracle partnered with the arms company Anduril Industries to provide their Lattice military software platform to the governments of United States, United Kingdom and Australia.<ref>"Oracle and Anduril Industries Partner to Deliver AI-Powered Defense Solutions from the Datacenter to the Tactical Edge". www.oracle.com. Retrieved February 12, 2026.</ref>

Offices

Oracle Corporation's world headquarters are located in Austin, Texas.<ref>"Oracle Corporation (ORCL) Company Profile & Facts - Yahoo Finance". Yahoo Finance. Archived from the original on January 22, 2025. Retrieved December 15, 2025.</ref> In April 2024, Oracle announced plans to build its largest office hub, with 8,500 jobs, in Nashville, Tennessee.<ref>Capoot, Ashley (April 23, 2024). "Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry". CNBC. Retrieved December 15, 2025.</ref>

Oracle has a large office complex located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the Redwood Shores area of Redwood City. This complex was home to Oracle world headquarters from 1989 to 2020. It is located on the former site of Marine World/Africa USA, which moved from Redwood Shores to Vallejo in 1986. Oracle Corporation originally leased two buildings on the Oracle Parkway site, moving its finance and administration departments from the corporation's former headquarters on Davis Drive, Belmont, California. Eventually, Oracle purchased the complex and constructed four additional buildings.<ref>"Oracle's Larry Ellison Says Planned Nashville Campus Will Be Company's 'World Headquarters'". US News and World Report. April 24, 2024.</ref>

The distinctive Oracle Parkway buildings, nicknamed the Emerald City,<ref>Rich, Laura (July 23, 2010). "When it comes to acquistion [sic] plans, it's Oracle vs Oracle". CNNMoney.com. Archived from the original on August 27, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2011.</ref> served as sets for the futuristic headquarters of the fictional company "NorthAm Robotics" in the Robin Williams film Bicentennial Man (1999).<ref>"Trivia for Bicentennial Man". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 27, 2011.</ref> The campus also represented the headquarters of Cyberdyne Systems in the movie Terminator Genisys (2015).<ref>"Trivia for Terminator Genisys". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved July 9, 2015.</ref>

Oracle offices and former headquarters in Redwood Shores, California

<gallery class="center" widths="200" heights="200"> File:Oracle Redwood City May 2011 001.jpg|300 Oracle Parkway in Redwood Shores File:Oracle HQ3.jpg|Oracle offices in Redwood Shores, with Oracle Plaza building in left foreground File:Oracle Conference Center, Oracle HQ.JPG|Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores File:Oracle Fountain (6532480).jpg|Fountain in the Oracle lake, Redwood Shores File:Oracle at Thames Valley Park.jpg|Oracle has a major business campus at Thames Valley Park in Reading in England File:Oracle Aoyama Center 01.JPG|Oracle Aoyama Center Building, with Lexus International Gallery Aoyama File:OracleMarkham.JPG|Oracle in Markham, Ontario File:Oracle office in Melbourne.jpg|Oracle office in Melbourne, Australia </gallery>

Corporate structures

Oracle Corporation operates in multiple markets and has acquired many companies to help it do so. In some cases these companies became the starting points for global business units (GBUs) targeting particular vertical markets. Oracle Corporation's GBUs include:<ref name="Sanati-18Dec2017">Sanati, Cyrus (August 16, 2016). "Inside Oracle's Acquisition Machine". Fortune. Retrieved December 18, 2017.</ref>

• Communications
• Construction and engineering—formerly the Primavera GBU
• Energy and Water
• Financial services
• Food and Beverages
• Health sciences
• Hospitality
• Retail

Sponsorships

In 1994 and 1995, Oracle sponsored Benetton Formula.

From 2001 to 2021, Sean Tucker's stunt biplane was sponsored by Oracle and performed frequently at air shows around the US.<ref>"Smithsonian Air and Space Museum lands famed aerobatic plane". The Washington Post. May 10, 2021. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved November 30, 2025.</ref>

In October 2006, the Golden State Warriors and the Oracle Corporation announced a 10-year agreement in which the Oakland Arena would become known as the Oracle Arena.<ref>"Golden State Warriors, Oracle Reach Arena Naming Rights Agreement". Warriors.com. NBA Media Ventures, LLC. October 20, 2006. Retrieved June 14, 2019.</ref> The agreement ended after the 2018–2019 NBA season when the Warriors relocated to the Chase Center in San Francisco.<ref>Harrington, Jim (September 3, 2019). "With Warriors gone, the new name of Oracle Arena in Oakland is…". The Mercury News. Retrieved October 17, 2020.</ref> In January 2019, the San Francisco Giants entered into a 20-year agreement to rename their stadium Oracle Park.<ref>"Giants' home has been renamed Oracle Park". ESPN.com. January 10, 2019.</ref>

BMW Oracle Racing USA-71, at the German Sailing Grand Prix Kiel 2006. It was moored at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, until 2014.

Larry Ellison's sailing team competes as Oracle Team USA. The team won the America's Cup twice, in 2010 (as BMW Oracle Racing)<ref>Shankland, Stephen (February 16, 2010). "Ellison's team wins long-sought sailing trophy". CNET. Archived from the original on March 13, 2014. Retrieved October 5, 2010.</ref> and in 2013,<ref>"Oracle Team USA stages massive comeback to win 34th America's Cup". America's Cup. September 25, 2013. Archived from the original on March 12, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2014.</ref> despite being penalized for cheating.<ref>"Oracle hit with stiff penalty" (PDF). www.bizjournals.com. September 3, 2009. Retrieved November 14, 2019.</ref><ref>CNBC (August 26, 2013). "Did Larry Ellison cheat in the America's Cup?". CNBC.</ref>

From the 2022 Formula One season, Oracle signed a five-year deal worth $500 million to become title sponsors of Red Bull Racing, after already being a sponsor effective from the 2021 season.<ref>"Red Bull F1 clinches new $500M title sponsorship with Oracle". AP NEWS. February 9, 2022. Retrieved February 9, 2022.</ref>

See also

• Cover Oregon
• Oracle Applications
• Oracle Certification Program
• Oracle Clinical
• Oracle Database
• Oracle Linux
• Oracle User Group

Further reading

• Mendelsohn, Andrew (April–June 2013). "The Oracle Story: 1984–2001". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 35 (2): 10–23. Bibcode:2013IAHC...35b..10M. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2012.56. S2CID 17907189. INSPEC Accession Number 13640647.

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