Oracle

Oracle Corporation

History

Relational Software Incorporated (RSI) was founded by Larry Ellison and Bob Miner in 1977.

The first product Oracle RDBMS Version 2 was introduced in 1979 for PDP-11 under RSX-11. Oracle Version 3 from 1983 was a complete rewrite in C programming language. The company name changed from RSI to Oracle Corporation.

Oracle Version 4 (1984) was also ported to the IBM PC. Oracle Version 5 (1985) was the first DOS product that breaks through the 640K barrier by using extended memory.

Oracle Version 6 (1988) introduced many new features and was available for OS/2.

Oracle7 (1992) was fully compliant with the SQL89 ANSI/ISO SQL standard.

Took over Sun Microsystems in 2010.

Products

• 1988: Oracle Server for OS/2
• CASE Designer
• Oracle Quicksilver - dBase compiler
• Professional Oracle for OS/2
  • SQL*Forms
  • SQL*Menu
  • SQL*ReportWriter
  • SQL*Plus
  • Pro*C
• Designer/2000 - CASE tool
• Developer/2000 - RAD programming environment

Sun

• Solaris
• StarOffice
• Oracle JDeveloper
• VirtualBox

Publications

• Ken Jacobs: The Oracle Server Story - Oracle Magazine Jan/Feb 1995

Links

• http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/history/index.html