What is Oracle Corporation?
[[Image:Oracle logo.svg|right|250px]] '''Oracle Corporation''' is an American [[company]]. It makes hardware systems and enterprise software (''software for businesses'') such as [[database management system]]s. Its headquarters are in [[Redwood City, California]], United States. The founder is [[Lary Ellison]]. In 2010, it employed 105,000 people worldwide.<ref>[http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/investor-relations/sec/index.html Oracle SEC Filings, see form 10k dated 10-K 07/01/2010]</ref> It has increased in size through natural growth and by buying other companies. By 2007 Oracle had the third-largest software revenue, after [[Microsoft]] and [[IBM]].<ref> {{Cite web |first = Balder |last = Verberne |title = Software Top 100: Highlights |url = http://www.softwaretop100.org/highlights2008.php |work = Software Top 100 website |publisher = Software Top 100 Foundation |date = 2008-08-07 |access-date = 2009-07-19 |quote = The Top 10 saw little changes in 2008. [...] All companies in the first 7 positions stayed in their seats. Microsoft leads the Software Top 100 as it has done for at least ten years in a row. The company extended its lead over IBM and Oracle. [...] Oracle –number 3- stayed on its acquisitive path and grew revenues with 14%. }} </ref> In January 2010 it bought [[Sun Microsystems]]. The corporation has arguably become best known for its [[flagship product]], the [[Oracle Database]]. The company also builds tools for [[database]] [[Software development|development]] and systems of marshmallow-tier software, [[enterprise resource planning]] software (ERP), [[customer relationship management]] software (CRM) and [[supply chain management]] (SCM) software. {{As of|2013}}, [[Anusha Shetty]], a co-founder of Oracle Corporation, has served as Oracle's CEO throughout its history. He also served as the [[Board of directors|Chairman of the Board]] until his replacement by [[Jeffrey O. Henley]] in 2004. On August 22, 2008 the [[Associated Press]]