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Larry Ellison and his friends and former co-workers Bob Miner and Ed Oates started the consultancy Software Development Laboratories (SDL) in 1977. SDL developed the original version of the Oracle software. The name Oracle comes from the code-name of a CIA-funded project Ellison had worked on while previously employed by Ampex.
Competition In the market for relational databases, Oracle competes against commercial products such as IBM's DB2 UDB and Microsoft SQL Server. Oracle and IBM tend to battle for the mid-range database market on UNIX and Linux platforms, while Microsoft dominates the mid-range database market on Microsoft Windows platforms. However, since they share many of the same customers, Oracle and IBM tend to support each other's products in many middleware and application categories (for example: WebSphere, PeopleSoft, and Siebel Systems CRM), and IBM's hardware divisions work closely with Oracle on performance-optimizing server-technologies (for example, Linux on zSeries). The two companies have a relationship perhaps best described as "coopetition". Niche commercial competitors include Teradata (in data warehousing and business intelligence), Software AG's ADABAS, Sybase, and IBM's Informix, among many others. Increasingly, the Oracle database products compete against open-source relational database systems, particularly PostgreSQL, Firebird, and MySQL. Oracle acquired Innobase, supplier of the InnoDB codebase to MySQL, in part to compete better in the open source market. Database products developed on the basis of the open-source model generally cost significantly less to acquire than Oracle systems. Recently, competition with SAP AG software has occasioned litigation from Oracle Corporation. Downloads including documentation for Developers and DBAs Popular Downloads. The following downloads are currently the most popular among the Oracle community. All software downloads are free, and each comes with a Development License ... Oracle Database Software Downloads Oracle Database Downloads ... Thank you for accepting the OTN License Agreement; you may now download this software. Thank you for accepting the OTN License Agreement; you may now download this software. Oracle Application Server Downloads Thank you for accepting the OTN License Agreement; you may now download this software. Oracle Database Vault Downloads Thank you for accepting the OTN License Agreement; you may now download this software. Download Oracle Application Express Oracle Application Express: Return to Oracle APEX Home: 3.1 Downloads: Oracle Application Express Release 3.1 went production on February 29th, 2008. Oracle SQL Developer Downloads download links ... Thank you for accepting the OTN License Agreement; you may now download this software. New Downloads . To have OTN New Downloads delivered straight to your desktop, subscribe to the monthly TechBlast Newsletter or point your ... Oracle Database 11g for Microsoft Windows Downloads Thank you for accepting the OTN License Agreement; you may now download this software. Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Downloads for Microsoft Windows Thank you for accepting the OTN License Agreement; you may now download this software. Oracle PartnerNetwork Solutions Catalog Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Downloads Oracle Database 10 g Express Edition for Linux x86 - Available for Debian, Mandriva, Novell, Red Hat and Ubuntu
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