American multinational computer corporation
2300 Oracle Wy, Austin, TX 78741
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Co-founded in Santa Clara, California by Bob Miner, Ed Oates, and current chairman of the board and chief technology officer, … Wikipedia
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Formerly Software Development Laboratories (1977–1979)
Relational Software, Inc. (1979–1983)
Oracle Systems Corporation (1983–1995)
Company type Public
Traded as NYSE: ORCL
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Factsheet
Formerly Software Development Laboratories (1977–1979)
Relational Software, Inc. (1979–1983)
Oracle Systems Corporation (1983–1995)
Company type Public
Traded as NYSE: ORCL
S&P 100 component
S&P 500 component
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Wikipedia
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Oracle Corporation - Wikipedia
2 hours ago - Oracle will store data of US TikTok users on its cloud computers, and it will be involved in the new TikTok spinoff's cybersecurity. Oracle partnered with the arms company Anduril Industries to provide their Lattice military software platform to the governments of United States, United Kingdom ...
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Substack
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The Merger That Needed A War - The Drey Dossier - Substack
March 1, 2026 - That company is controlled by David Ellison, whose father Larry Ellison runs Oracle — the same company that serves as the cloud infrastructure for the merged entity, holds contracts processing Medicare and classified military data, and whose ...
Discussions

TIL Larry Ellison's Oracle Started As a CIA Project
Oracle: an ever-changing set of overly-complicated software products which are constantly renamed and involve exorbitant licencing fees and expensive hardware systems. Source: have worked with Oracle products and technologies since version 4. Does anyone remember SQL*Calc? More on reddit.com
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Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? - Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed
Birmingham City Council tried to implement some Oracle software, started off costing £20 MILLION and is now expected to cost £100Million. It's absolutely ridiculous and I've seen it happen in so many places and different industries. I never see anyone getting fired for making these decisions. More on reddit.com
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Will Oracle database become irrelevant ?
No. People will still be using Oracle 30 years from now. Just like they are using COBOL based systems in banks, Novel Netware based systems, etc. People are still using things like Ingres (the predecessor to PostGres in many ways as you can tell from the name) which was established when Oracle was new and about which people probably said a similar thing 30 years ago (will Oracle make Ingres obsolete). When technology gets old it stops being used in new organisations, then later in new use cases in existing ones but if it's still working and still useful why change it. But Oracle isn't even there yet. People are still picking it up and using it in new use-cases due to it still being a solid choice and very good at its job even if it is quite expensive and the licensing is restrictive. Also the current user base is still gigantic. IMO people will still be having this same conversation about Oracle 20 years from now ... More on reddit.com
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What's with the stigma behind oracle?
They make money from licensing and obscure EULA terms. For example, virtualbox has a subcomponent that you have to pay for. So devs install, play for a while then Oracle shows up saying a company has to pay fees for something people expected was free to use. It's extortion. They have nothing of value to add to the industry, so they resort to legal loopholes to extort money. More on reddit.com
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GSA
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GSA to Accelerate Cost Savings for Government in Partnership with Oracle | GSA
July 7, 2025 - WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced a significant OneGov agreement with Oracle. The comprehensive deal offers government agencies a 75% discount on Oracle’s License-based technology, substantial base ...
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Reddit
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r/todayilearned on Reddit: TIL Larry Ellison's Oracle Started As a CIA Project
August 24, 2021 - While the name Oracle probably just sounded cool. ... Oracle is the CIA. Their products suck, yet they’re the 3rd largest tech company in the world? They control the servers that Google, Apple and the rest have to route “suspicious “ images ...
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Oracle
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Government and Education
Read the GSA press release Learn more about the agreement · Hear from federal, state, and local government and industry experts about tailored approaches for secure AI usage and accountability, supporting responsible and protected integration across all levels of government.
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Gizmodo
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Larry Ellison's Oracle Started As a CIA Project
September 19, 2014 - Rosen explains that the federal government accounted for a whopping 23 percent of Oracle’s licensing revenue in 2003, roughly $2.5 billion. Rosen tells of meeting with the folks at Oracle, one of whom was David Carney, formerly the number three person at the CIA.
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Oracle
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Oracle OneGov
The US General Services Administration (GSA) has reached a landmark agreement with Oracle to reduce the cost of Oracle solutions across the federal government. Oracle is working closely with the GSA to help ensure every federal agency can readily ...
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Oracle
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Defense and Intelligence | Oracle
Today, 1,000+ public sector organizations and 100% of federal cabinet agencies build, modernize, and innovate with Oracle. Our roots run deep when it comes to managing your most mission-critical data.
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SFGATE
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Oracle's coziness with government goes back to its founding / Firm's growth sustained as niche established with federal, state agencies
May 20, 2002 - Long before Oracle became embroiled in a controversy over selling its software in Sacramento, the Redwood City software giant was building its reputation and its business on government contracts. From a Central Intelligence Agency deal that launched the firm 25 years ago, to recent software contracts in Sacramento and Los Angeles, Oracle is no stranger to the halls of political power.
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Nextgov.com
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Oracle, the CIA and government's role in picking winners - Nextgov/FCW
January 14, 2026 - "Not mentioning just how reliant Oracle has been on government contracts since its inception," Novak writes, "is downright strange and seems to feed this narrative that Ellison simply created a product that companies wanted and private enterprise did the rest."
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Oracle
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Oracle US Government Cloud and Oracle US Defense Cloud
March 11, 2025 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure government cloud provides cloud services for two levels of government operators: ... Oracle Cloud Native SCCA Landing Zone, an architecture guide for the US Department of Defense and Implementation Partners for using Oracle Cloud Native Platform Automation in connection with Secure Cloud Computing Architecture Requirements.
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Oracle
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Government Cloud Solutions | Oracle
We operate government cloud regions in the US, UK, and Australia and provide governments worldwide with a range of deployment models to meet local data residency, classification, operational, and security requirements.
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OpenSecrets
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Oracle invested millions in government influence before winning a major stake in TikTok - OpenSecrets News
September 25, 2025 - During the first half of 2025, Oracle has employed or contracted with 64 different federal lobbyists across 11 different lobbying firms, plus its own in-house government affairs office.
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IBM
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What is Oracle? | IBM
November 17, 2025 - Government agencies like the Department of Defense14 and public sector companies use Oracle to securely manage public records and data including classified information. ... In the healthcare industry, organizations use Oracle’s database and ...
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FedScoop
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Oracle approved to handle government secret-level data | FedScoop
April 23, 2024 - ... The Oracle logo on an office building in Irvine, California. (REUTERS / Mike Blake) Oracle has added its name to the short list of cloud vendors approved to handle classified, secret-level data for the federal government.
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Oracle
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Cloud for Federal Civilian, Defense and Intelligence Agencies | Oracle
Federal civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies need cost-effective, FedRAMP-compliant cloud infrastructure. Oracle Cloud gets the mission done.
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Oracle
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About Oracle | Company Information | Oracle
Oracle becomes a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ exchange. The quotation symbol is ORCL. Oracle ranks as the world’s largest database management company with US$100M in sales and 4,500 end users in 55 countries.
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Orinoco Tribune
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Oracle, the Shadowy Tech Giant in League With the CIA and Israel, With Alan Macleod
January 3, 2025 - Ever since its beginning and even before its beginning in the 1970s, as being fundamentally intertwined with the U.S. national security states, Oracle grew from a very small, fledgling company into a multibillion dollar behemoth that it is today, and it has done that through getting fat off of the huge contracts that Washington hands out.
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Medium
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TechStackTrivia: Why Oracle Is Called Oracle
December 30, 2025 - #TechStackTrivia — The story behind Oracle’s name and its origins in a CIA project that launched one of the first relational databases.
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The Software Report
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Oracle Deepens Relationship With US Government | The Software Report
July 13, 2021 - The most recent development is with Oracle, which has announced it has received a new authority to operate for a set of cloud offerings under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FEDRAMP), expanding the range of Oracle cloud products available to the federal government. Please purchase a subscription to continue reading this article. Subscribe Now · FedRAMP is the federal government program that sets the standard for assessing, authorizing, and monitoring cloud systems' security. Similarly, DISA offers a variety of compliance and security assessments to accredit cloud systems for use by DoD and federal organizations.