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Our mission is to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, and unlock endless possibilities.

For more than four decades, we’ve delivered innovations that have helped build entire industries. The following facts and figures highlight some of the many ways we continue to deliver innovations for our customers, partners, and communities.

Scale
- US$53B in revenue in FY2024
- US$80B+ in R&D since FY2012
- US$110B+ spent on 150+ acquisitions
- 160,000 employees
- 18,000 customer support and service specialists, speaking 20+ languages
- 29,000 consulting experts
Innovation
- World’s first autonomous database
- Industry’s broadest and deepest suite of AI-powered cloud applications
- World’s largest EHR implementation, serving more than 9.5 million beneficiaries spanning the United States, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region
- 5 million registered members of Oracle’s customer and developer communities
- 469 independent user communities in 97 countries representing more than 1 million members

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A history of possibilities

Birth of a Silicon Valley startup

Engineers Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates found Software Development Laboratories. Their first office is 900 square feet in Santa Clara, California.

1977

Oracle sees the future

The company changes its name to Oracle Corporation from Relational Software Inc. (formerly SDL).

1982

Oracle goes public

Oracle becomes a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ exchange. The quotation symbol is ORCL.

1986

World’s largest database management company

Oracle ranks as the world’s largest database management company with US$100M in sales and 4,500 end users in 55 countries.

1987

Moving on up

Oracle debuts on the S&P 500, outgrows its old headquarters, and moves to Redwood Shores, California.

1989

Oracle celebrates 15 years and Oracle7 release

There’s lots to celebrate with the release of the game-changing Oracle7 database and the company’s 15th anniversary.

1992

Harnessing the power of the internet

CEO Larry Ellison introduces a product strategy for delivering Oracle software via the internet.

1995

Oracle Database sets the standard

InformationWeek names Oracle Database one of the most influential products of the 1990s.

1999

Oracle saves a billion—using Oracle

Oracle saves US$1B dollars consolidating its own systems using Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, the first fully integrated enterprise apps suite.

2000

Oracle acquires PeopleSoft

Oracle kicks off a Silicon Valley high-tech acquisition trend by buying a leader in HR and ERP apps.

2005

Oracle at 30 continues to grow and innovate

Oracle turns 30, with revenues of US$18B, 65,000 employees, and 275,000 customers in more than 145 countries.

2007

Hardware and software, engineered to work together

Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems, cementing its strategy to engineer hardware and software together, and also becomes the steward of Java.

2010

Oracle rolls out Fusion Cloud Applications

The industry's most complete suite of enterprise SaaS applications is built from the ground up for the cloud.

2011

Oracle Database plugs into the cloud

Revolutionary multitenant architecture helps deliver a secure and consolidated database cloud.

2013

ORACLE TEAM USA sails to second America’s Cup win

ORACLE TEAM USA beats challenger Team New Zealand to win the 2013 America’s Cup yacht race, its second consecutive victory.

2013

Oracle acquires NetSuite

The US$9.3 billion deal, for the very first cloud application company, is one of Oracle’s largest ever.

2016

Oracle launches the first autonomous database

The company launches Oracle Autonomous Database, the industry’s first self-patching, self-tuning, and self-managing database.

2018

Oracle Gen 2 Cloud debuts

The launch represents a fundamental re-architecture of the conventional public cloud.