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History

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  • 1979: Larry Ellison and friends founded Software Development Laboratories.

  • 1979: SDL changed its company-name to "Relational Software, Inc." (RSI) and introduced its product Oracle V2 as an early commercially-available relational database system. The version did not support transactions, but implemented the basic SQL functionality of queries and joins. (RSI never released a version 1 - instead calling the first version version 2 as a marketing gimmick.)

  • 1983: RSI in its turn changed its name, becoming known as "Oracle Corporation", to align itself more closely with its flagship-product. The company released Oracle version 3, which it had re-written using the C programming languageCOMMIT and ROLLBACK functionality for transactions. Version 3 extended platform support from the existing Digital VAX/VMS systems to include Unix

  • 1984: Oracle Corporation released Oracle version 4, which supported read-consistency.

  • 1985: the Oracle RDBMS began supporting the client-server model, with networks becoming more widely available in the mid-1980s. Oracle version 5.0 supported distributed queries.

  • 1989: Oracle Corporation entered the application productsERP product, Oracle E-Business Suite, based on the Oracle relational database. Oracle RDBMS version 6 came out with support for PL/SQL embedded within Oracle Forms v3 (version 6 could not store PL/SQL in the database proper), row-level locking and hot backups. market and developed its1992: Oracle version 7 appeared with support for referential integrity, stored procedures and triggers.

  • 1997: Oracle Corporation released version 8, which supported object-oriented development and multimedia

  • 1999: The release of Oracle8i aimed to provide a database inter-operating better with the Internet (the i in the name stands for "Internet"). The Oracle 8i database incorporated a native Java virtual machine (Oracle JVM).

  • 2001: Oracle9i was released with 400 new features, including the ability to read and write XML documents. 9i also provided an option for Oracle RAC, or "Real Application Clusters", a computer-cluster database, as a replacement for the Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) option.

  • 2003: Oracle Corporation released Oracle Database 10g. (The g stands for "grid"; emphasizing a marketing thrust of presenting 10g as "grid-computing ready".)

  • 2005: Oracle Database 10.2.0.1 — also known as Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10gR2) — appeared.

  • 2007: Oracle Corporation released Oracle Database 11g for the Linux operating system applications.

 
 
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