| Year | Detail |
| 1977 |
Engineers Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates founded Software Development Laboratories in Santa Clara, California. |
| 1982 |
The company changes its name to Oracle Corporation. |
| 1986 |
Oracle becomes a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ exchange.
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| 1987 |
Oracle ranked as world's largest database mangement company. |
| 1989 |
Oracle moves to its currect location in Redwood Shores, California. |
| 1995 |
CEO Larry Ellison introduces delivering Oracle software via the internet. |
| 1999 |
InformationWeek names Oracle database as one of the most influential products of the 1990s. |
| 2005 |
Oracle acquires PeopleSoft. |
| 2008 |
Marvel entertainment smashes silos and mines data using Oracle applications. |
| 2010 |
Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems. |
| 2013 |
Oracle Database plugs into the cloud. |
| 2018 |
Oracle launches the first autonomous database. |
| 2018 |
CERN openlab uses 10,000 Oracle Cloud cores to perform physics analysis. |
| 2019 |
ELEM computes full-heart models of diseased hearts using Oracle's high performance cloud. |
| 2022 |
Oracle acquires HER pioneer Cerner. |
| 2023 |
Oracle signed an agreement to acquire Next Technik. |