Oracle历史

26年前，当拉里·埃利森偶然看到有关关系型数据库工作原型的一段描述时，他发现了一个其他公司错失的机遇。当时，尚未有企业致力于商业化这一技术。埃利森和他的共同创始人Bob Miner和Ed Oates认识到在关系型数据库模型方面存在极其巨大的商业潜力--但是他们当时可能还没有意识到，他们将永远地改变商业计算的形态。

今天的Oracle (纳斯达克：ORCL)依然走在这一领域的前列。世界上的所有行业几乎都在应用Oracle技术，且《财富》100强中的98家公司都采用Oracle技术。Oracle是第一个跨整个产品线（数据库、业务应用软件和应用软件开发与决策支持工具）开发和部署100%基于互联网的企业软件的公司。Oracle是世界领先的信息管理软件供应商和世界第二大独立软件公司。

Oracle是一家不断创新的公司。今天，使业务应用程序通过互联网可用的观念已成为人们的共识，可在当初，Oracle是最初几家实践此观念的公司之一。现在，Oracle致力于使所有软件都能够协同工作（即采用套件方式），其他公司、分析家和新闻媒体逐渐认识到Oracle是正确的。Oracle在未来会如何做呢？我们将秉承公司的传统--不断创新，引领行业发展，同时，我们要想客户所想，急客户所急，注重为采用我们软件的客户解决问题。

创新时间表

oracle first

2006

First to enforce preventive database auditing controls to help meet compliance requirements by restricting powerful users from unauthorized access to specific information

First backup product, Oracle Secure Backup, to embed backup logic directly inside a relational database engine

First to offer content and records management solutions capable of managing the wide range of diverse data and metadata in a single database

2005

Oracle unveiled free database for developers, ISVs and students, Oracle Database 10g Express Edition

Powers the world's largest commercial database, a customer data warehouse measured at 100 terabyte (TB)

2004

First to provide a single customer view from multiple data sources with Oracle Customer DataHub

2003

First to introduce Enterprise Grid Computing with Oracle 10g

First database that is available in production for 64-bit Linux with IPF.

2002

First database to pass 15 industry standard security evaluations and first Real Application Clustering

First native XML support in a relational database

First fully integrated relational and multidimensional database

First database with table compression on Unix, NT and Linux

First complete and integrated business intelligence platform

2001

First database to complete the 3 terabyte TPC-H world record

First database to pass over 9 industry standard security evaluations

First database with built-in Web services

First database with integrated data mining

First database with support for real world packaged applications on a cluster

First database with Hash, Range, Composite and List partitioning

First database with dynamic memory management

First database with built-in workflow

First database with complete online maintenance operations

First to support the JOLAP API

2000

First to offer complete and simple software for information management including the Oracle9i Database, Oracle9i Application Server and Oracle9i Developer Suite

Provide a single data model and single global instance

Industry's first Developer Service Provider (DSP)

Offers a complete applications suite

First to offer developers online services for application development

First to release a production framework for defining Web services

Launches first online developers skills exchange, Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Xchange

Introduces fully integrated application server for internet computing-Oracle Internet Application Server (Oracle9iAS)

Introduces first internet developer suite

First to offer an internet file system built for the internet, Oracle Internet File System

Launches Oracle Mobile, wireless applications service provider

Delivers the industry's only complete e-business suite, Oracle E-Business Suite 11i

Launches E-Business Network

1999

First to integrate Java and XML into an application development tool

Launches first industry exchange, AutoXchange, with Ford Motor Company

Launches complete e-business initiative

Provides applications hosting (Oracle Outsourcing)

Delivers first comprehensive, internet-based CRM suite

Overtakes SAP in US manufacturing

Offers the only internet platform for mobile, embedded, and information appliance computing

First relational database management system (RDBMS) ported to Linux

First database with XML support

First to offer a full-featured internet database

First to introduce capabilities to use XML and SQL in Java servlets

First to introduce the concept of portlets as a way to integrate applications into an e-business portal

1998

Launches Business Online, the first hosting service for enterprise applications designed to be run over the Web

Launches comprehensive, internet-based strategic procurement solution

Offers full Web deployment of all applications

Integrates front office and enterprise applications

Offers an integrated business intelligence system

Offers a full-featured flow manufacturing product

Offers a complete financial consolidation engine

Offers rapid, one-step planning

Offers self-service applications

Offers the first set of application modeling tools that generate 100 percent of the application

Breaks the 100,000 TPC-C barrier

First database with Java support

1997

Builds Internet-based applications

Moves client/server applications to the Web

Supports Very Large Memory Modules on Windows NT

Supports clusters on Windows NT

First Web database

1996

Breaks the 30,000 TPC-C barrier

Announces an open standards-based, Web-enabled architecture

1995

First 64-bit relational database management system (RDBMS)

Provides Web connectivity kit to the database

1994

Offers the first media server to support video on demand

Supports fingerprint logins

1993

Moves character mode applications to the client/server model

1992

Offers a full applications implementation methodology (AIM)

1991

Offers row-level locking First to introduce PL/SQL

1990

First symmetric multiprocessing database

1988

Offers row-level locking

First to introduce PL/SQL

1987

First symmetric multiprocessing database

Offers first business application - Oracle General Ledger

1986

Supports distributed queries

First client-server database

1985

Offers a parallel server database

1984

Offers the first database with read consistency

1983

Offers a VAX-mode database

Offers a database written entirely in C, for portability

1979

Offers the first commercial SQL relational database management system (RDBMS)

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