31 Facts About Oracle Corp

In 2020, Oracle Corp was the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization.

Oracle Corp sells database software and technology, cloud engineered systems, and enterprise software products, such as enterprise resource planning software, human capital management software, customer relationship management software, enterprise performance management software, and supply chain management software.

In 2005, Oracle Corp acquired PeopleSoft, an ERP company, and in 2006 Siebel, a CRM company.

In 2008 Oracle Corp acquired BEA Systems, an enterprise infrastructure software company and in 2010 it acquired Sun Microsystems, a computer hardware and software company .

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

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Oracle Corp allows these services to be provisioned on demand over the Internet.

Oracle Corp Cloud provides Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service and Data as a Service .

Oracle Corp eventually had to restate its earnings twice, and settled class-action lawsuits arising from its having overstated its earnings.

Informix claimed that Oracle Corp had hired away Informix engineers to disclose important trade secrets about an upcoming product.

Today Oracle Corp competes for new database licenses on UNIX, GNU, and Windows operating systems primarily against IBM's Db2 and Microsoft SQL Server.

Business intelligence vendors can be categorized into the "big four" consolidated BI firms such as Oracle Corp, who has entered BI market through a recent trend of acquisitions, and the independent "pure play" vendors such as MicroStrategy, Actuate, and SAS.

Oracle Corp 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.

In 2004, Oracle Corp began to increase its interest in the enterprise-applications market .

In 2000, Oracle Corp attracted attention from the computer industry and the press after hiring private investigators to dig through the trash of organizations involved in an antitrust trial against Microsoft.

The lawsuit, which demands a jury trial, alleges that Oracle Corp has engaged in "deliberate and purposeful surveillance of the general population via their digital and online existence", specifically focusing on Oracle Corp operating a surveillance machine which tracks in real-time and records indefinitely the personal information of hundreds of millions of people.

The litigants against Oracle Corp argue that through such surveillance, the company violates the Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, California's state constitution, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, competition law, and California Common Law.

In 2012 Oracle Corp agreed to pay about $2 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission .

Since the acquisition, Oracle Corp has discontinued OpenSolaris and StarOffice, and sued Google over the Java patents Oracle Corp acquired from Sun.

In 2010, Oracle Corp sued Google for copyright infringement for the use of the 37 Java packages.

In February 2017, Oracle filed another appeal to the U S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Oracle Corp expressed no interest in sponsoring the new project and asked the OpenOffice.

Oracle Corp called the lawsuit "an abuse of the judicial process" and said that had it known SAP's Leo Apotheker was about to be hired as HP's new CEO, any support for HP's Itanium servers would not have been implied.

HP argued Oracle Corp's canceling support damaged HP's Itanium server brand.

Oracle Corp had announced that it would appeal both the decision and damages, but the decision stayed.

In September 2022, Oracle settled with the U S Securities and Exchange Commission without admitting or denying its findings, by agreeing to pay $23 million to settle the charges.

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The SEC announced that Oracle Corp violated the FCPA between 2014 and 2019 when its subsidiaries in India, Turkey and UAE created slush funds to bribe foreign officials in order to win business.

Oracle Corp has previously used this portal for around four hundred million dollars a year in revenue.

Oracle Corp previously settled a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act, which accused the company of overbilling the US government between 1998 and 2006.

Oracle Corp has plans to build its largest office hub, with 8500 jobs, in Nashville within the next few decades.

Oracle Corp has a large office complex located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the Redwood Shores area of Redwood City, adjacent to Belmont and near San Carlos Airport .

Oracle Corp has a major business campus at Thames Valley Park in Reading in England.