文档介绍：Section 8: About Oracle
Profile
Oracle Corporation
Oracle is a $ pany with headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, USA. It is the world’s largest supplier of software for information management, and the world’s second largest pany. Oracle is one of the first panies to implement interactive television deployments and the first major pany to make full-featured products available electronically on the .
Oracle develops and markets the Oracle8, Oracle7, Oracle Rdb and Oracle Media Server families of software products for database management; Developer/2000, Designer/2000 and Oracle Discoverer, tools for enterprise-wide, client/server applications; and Oracle Applications, packaged client/server solutions for business operations.
Oracle software runs on personal digital assistants, set-top devices, PCs, workstations, puters, mainframes and massively puters. pany employs more than 30,000 people worldwide and offers its products, along with related consulting, education and support services through wholly-owned subsidiaries and distributors in over 93 countries.
Information is key strategic asset in today’s petitive business environment, and Oracle is the undisputed leader in the domain of information management.
²Due to its size, breadth of product offerings, vision, and research and development budget, Oracle will remain the leader...²
Gartner Group
²Oracle Corp’s focus on portability, adherence to standards, product line integration, and strategic alliances... make Oracle7 attractive for implementing distributed client/server...²
Datapro
²Oracle’s technology, size and ‘full service’ pedigree make it the logical choice panies to partner with...²
Charlie Frumberg, UBS Securities
²Oracle can take on a role that IBM used to play in the 1970’s, constructively.²
New York Times, September 1994
Board of Directors
Mr. Larry Ellison, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Donald Lucas, Chairman of the mittee
Mr. Delbert Yocam, Finance and mittee
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