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The Development History of Oracle Bone Inscriptions
1977, Larry Ellision, Bob Miner and Ed Oates jointly founded the software development laboratory. 1970, a researcher from IBM wrote a research paper entitled "Relational Data Model of Large * * * Shared Database". Inspired by this article, the three of them decided to build a new type of database, called relational database system.

The first project they took on was to serve the American government, and they named it Oracle Bone Inscriptions. They think that Oracle Bone Inscriptions means "the source of wisdom", which is a very suitable name for this project and will be recognized by the CIA.

1978, the software development laboratory moved from the original St. Clark to Shashan Street in Menlo Park, the center of Silicon Valley.

In order to let people know the main business scope of the company, they renamed the software development laboratory as Relationa Software Inc. (RSI).

1979, RSI developed the first commercial SQL database-V2 (V1never launched).

1982, RSI changed its name to Oracle Bone Inscriptions Systems. Naming the company by its product name has helped the company win the recognition of the industry.

1983 Oracle decided to develop a portable RDBMS. Oracle developed V3, which is the first portable database running on PC, minicomputer and mainframe.

The income of 1984 reached12.7 million USD.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions moved to an 84,000-square-foot office building at 20 Belmont Davis.

Start the portable toolset.

During the year, the following institutions were established:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Canadian Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Holland Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions UK Ltd.

1985' s revenue reached $23 million.

During the year, the following institutions were established:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Austrian Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions German Company

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Japanese Co., Ltd.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Sweden Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Swiss Co.

1986' s revenue reached $55 million.

1986 March 12 IPO (initial public offering) started. On that day, the company's stock opened at $65,438+05 and closed at $20.75. Start the first client/server database.

During the year, the following institutions were established:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Australia Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Finland Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions French company

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Systems Hong Kong Limited

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Norwegian Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Spanish company

Income from 1987 reached $65438 +0.3 1 100 million.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions officially became the largest DBMS software company in the world.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions has set up an application product department consisting of seven employees and two products, which indicates that it has begun to enter the enterprise application product market.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions started consulting and supporting business, aiming at helping customers use their software better.

Now, Oracle Bone Inscriptions Consulting Department has become the fourth largest consulting department in the world.

Introduce the integration case and 4GL toolset.

During the year, the following institutions were established:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Mexican Co.

The revenue of 1988 reached $282 million.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions became the fourth largest software company in the world.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions launches V6 database.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions launches Unix relational finance application.

During the year, the following institutions were established:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Brazil Co.

Oracle China Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Cyprus Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Malaysian Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions New Zealand Co.

1989' s income reached $571000000.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company moved its headquarters to Hongmu City Bay. Now six skyscrapers have been built there, surrounded by countless buildings, creating a park atmosphere.

Oracle has set the best record of transaction performance on IBM mainframe, DEC and UNIX minicomputers and OS/2 PC.

Start OLTP support service.

During the year, the following institutions were established:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Chile Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Greek

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Korea Corp.

Portuguese company of Oracle Bone Inscriptions

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Turkish Co.

Venezuelan company of Oracle Bone Inscriptions

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Taiwan Province province company

Oracle Bone Inscriptions enters China market.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions now sells products in 86 countries and regions around the world.

The income of 1990 reached 9160,000 USD.

During the year, the following institutions were established:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Belgian Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Argentine Corp.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Columbia Corp.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Costa Rica Co.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Philippine Corp.

199 1 Annual income reaches10.28 million USD.

Jeff Henry was appointed chief financial officer.

Oracle China Company was officially registered as "Beijing Oracle Bone Inscriptions Software System Co., Ltd." in China.

The income of 1992 reached165438+79 million USD.

Raymond Lane was appointed Chief Operating Officer.

Oracle7 database publishing.

The income of 1993 reached150.3 billion dollars.

Start the cross-GUI toolset.

1994' s income reached $20010 million.

Multimedia server database publishing.

The revenue of 1995 reached $2.967 billion.

Larry Ellison released the concept of network computer: a network computer is an Internet application device with local storage and a fast microprocessor without hard disk drive.

Oracle announced its query and analysis tool suite-Discoverer/2000, which can help end users access and analyze their own company's data (such as data in the company's data warehouse). Discoverer/2000 presents data in an easy-to-understand and very intuitive form, which can be used by any end user of the whole company, regardless of the level of personal technical expertise.

The revenue of 1996 reached $4.223 billion.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company established a new subsidiary, Network Computer Company, to promote network computers. Release Oracle 7.3- Universal Server

1997 revenue reached $5.684 billion.

Oracle released Oracle Designer/2000 2. 1 and Oracle Developer/2000 2. 1, which greatly improved the working efficiency of database application developers.

Oracle launched its next-generation network computing database-Oracle 8, which greatly reduced the computing cost of enterprises and promoted the arrival of a new era of low-cost and personalized information acquisition.

Oracle Applications R 10.7 closely links Oracle's application products with the Web: through Oracle applications for the web, users inside and outside the enterprise can not only handle key affairs, but also obtain company information and arrange their own activities according to the company information they know.

The income of 1998 reached 71440,000 USD.

Oracle released the Oracle application version 1 1. The client/server version has been completely discarded. Release 1 1 is the only internet product, which has made some new improvements to a series of products such as manufacturing and supply chain, finance, human resources, customer relationship management and so on.

Oracle also introduced a business intelligence system compatible with Oracle Applications version 1 1. Business intelligence system is an easy-to-use intranet application product, which can find information from Oracle applications and send it to business managers and supervisors to help them solve the thorny problems they face.

1999 revenue reached $8.827 billion.

Oracle8i delivered in Oracle Bone Inscriptions: it is the first Internet database in the world and the core part of business innovation of Internet platform in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. This new database has brought huge scale benefits to Internet applications based on Oracle's low-cost infrastructure.

In 2000, the income reached1065438+30 million USD.

Oracle e-business suite is the first fully integrated e-business application suite in the industry. Using its own e-commerce suite, Oracle Bone Inscriptions saved $654.38+0 billion in just one year, in other words, its operating gross profit increased by 10%.