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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