Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation
headquartered in Austin, Texas. In 2020, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world
by revenue and market capitalization.
Software
Oracle's E-delivery service (Oracle Software Delivery Cloud) provides generic downloadable Oracle
software and documentation.
Databases
Release 10: In 2004, Oracle Corporation shipped release 10g (g standing for "grid") as the then latest
version of Oracle Database. (Oracle Application Server 10g using Java EE integrated with the server part
of that version of the database, making it possible to deploy web-technology applications. The
application server was the first middle-tier software designed for grid computing. The interrelationship
between Oracle 10g and Java allowed developers to set up stored procedures written in the Java language,
as well as, those written in the traditional Oracle database programming language, PL/SQL.)[citation
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Release 11: Release 11g became available in 2007. Oracle Corporation released Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 in September 2009. This version was available in four commercial editions—Enterprise Edition,
Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, and Personal Edition—and in one free edition—the Express
Edition. The licensing of these editions shows various restrictions and obligations that were called
complex by licensing expert Freirich Florea.[28] The Enterprise Edition (DB EE), the most expensive of
the Database Editions, has the fewest restrictions—but nevertheless has complex licensing. Oracle
Corporation constrains the Standard Edition (DB SE) and Standard Edition One (SE1) with more licensing
restrictions, in accordance with their lower price.
Release 12: Release 12c (c standing for "cloud") became available on July 1, 2013.