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Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

's corporate acquisitions, including acquisitions of both companies and individual products.

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See also :Category:Sun Microsystems acquisitions (Sun was acquired by Oracle).

Company	Business	Valuation millions USD United States dollar The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....	References

RightNow Technologies RightNow Technologies RightNow Technologies is a U.S. software company that develops customer relationship management software for enterprise organizations. It is incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Bozeman, Montana....	Cloud-based CRM	$1,500	http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/10/24/oracle-to-buy-rightnow-for-43shr-or-1-5-billion/
Endeca	E-commerce & Business Intelligence	$1,075	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/517791 http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2011/10/24/daily5-Oracles-Endeca-acquisition-to-cost-11-billion.html
GoAHead	Service Availability and Management Software	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/Acquisitions/goahead/index.html
InQuira	Service Knowledge Management Software	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/Acquisitions/inquira/index.html
Ksplice Ksplice Ksplice is an open source extension of the Linux kernel which allows system administrators to apply security patches to a running kernel without having to reboot the operating system. Ksplice has been implemented for Linux on the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures. It was developed by Ksplice, Inc...	Rebootless Linux kernel updates	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/Acquisitions/ksplice/index.html
FatWire Software FatWire FatWire Software is a privately held company selling web content management system software.-History :* 1996: Established by Mark Fasciano, Ari Kahn and John Murcott it was named FutureTense...	Web Content and Web Experience Management (WCM and WEM) Software	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/fatwire/index.html?origref=http://www.fatwire.com/home
Pillar Data Systems Pillar Data Systems Pillar Data Systems is a storage company headquartered in San Jose, California. Pillar Data develops midrange and enterprise network storage systems...	Storage systems	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/Acquisitions/pillardata/index.html
Datanomic Datanomic Datanomic is a software engineering company based in Cambridge.Founded in 2001, Datanomic was a UK based software company developing data quality solutions. In 2006, Datanomic acquired Tranato and integrated Tranato's semantic profiling and parsing capabilities with Datanomic's data auditing and...	Data Quality Software	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/Acquisitions/datanomic/index.html
NDevr	Environmental reporting and Business intelligence	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/Acquisitions/ndevr/index.html

Art Technology Group Art Technology Group Art Technology Group was an independent Internet technology company specializing in eCommerce software and on-demand optimization applications until its acquisition by Oracle on January 5, 2011...	Ecommerce software vendor	$1,000	http://www.information-age.com/channels/business-applications/news/1295213/oracle-to-acquire-ecommerce-vendor-atg-for-and361bn.thtml
Pre-Paid Software from eServGlobal Limited	Payment Solutions	$73	http://mandasoft.com/1/18192/oracle_corporation_will_purchase_prepaid_software_from_eservglobal_limited
Market2Lead	Applications	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/index.html
Secerno	Data protection hardware and software	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/075001
Phase Forward	Applications for life sciences companies and healthcare providers	$685	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/068204
AmberPoint	Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) management	N/A	http://www.oracleimg.com/us/corporate/press/048842
Convergin	Telecom Service Broker	$85	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/049243
Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...	Computer server Server (computing) In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"... s, storage, networks Computer network A computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information.... , Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities... , MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... database, software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... , and services	$7,400	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/044428
Silver Creek Systems	Product Data Quality Solutions for connecting Enterprise Systems, Customers, Suppliers and Partners Business partner Business partner is a term used to denote a commercial entity with which another commercial entity has some form of alliance. This relationship may be a highly contractual, exclusive bond in which both entities commit not to ally with third parties... .	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/042861

SOPHOI	Intellectual property management for Media Mass media Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles... & Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation... Industry	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/sophoi
HyperRoll	Financial FINANCIAL FINANCIAL is the weekly English-language newspaper with offices in Tbilisi, Georgia and Kiev, Ukraine. Published by Intelligence Group LLC, FINANCIAL is focused on opinion leaders and top business decision-makers; It's about world’s largest companies, investing, careers, and small business. It is... s, software and IT Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... services	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/hyperroll/index.html
Conformia	Product Lifecycle Management Product lifecycle management In industry, product lifecycle management is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal...	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/conformia/index.html
Virtual Iron Software	Server Virtualization Management Software	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/virtualiron/index.html
Relsys International	Drug Safety Pharmacovigilance Pharmacovigilance is the pharmacological science relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects, particularly long term and short term side effects of medicines... and Risk Adverse drug reaction An adverse drug reaction is an expression that describes harm associated with the use of given medications at a normal dosage. ADRs may occur following a single dose or prolonged administration of a drug or result from the combination of two or more drugs... Management	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/relsys/index.html

Haley (RuleBurst Holdings)	Natural Language Business Rules / Policy Automation	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/Acquisitions/Haley
Advanced Visual Technology	Retail Space Planning	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/avt/index.html
Primavera Primavera Systems Primavera Systems, Inc was founded in May 1983 by Joel Koppelman and Dick Faris. It was a private company based in Pennsylvania which developed software solutions for the Project Portfolio Management market...	Project Portfolio Management Project Portfolio Management Project portfolio management is a term used by project managers and project management organizations, , to describe methods for analyzing and collectively managing a group of current or proposed projects based on numerous key characteristics...	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/primavera/index.html
Skywire Software	Document Management	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/skywiresoftware/index.html
AdminServer	Insurance Policy Administration	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/adminserver/index.html
BEA Systems BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products known as "middleware", which connect software applications to databases and was acquired by Oracle Corporation on April 29, 2008.- History :...	Enterprise Software Enterprise software Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software , is software used in organizations, such as in a business or government, contrary to software chosen by individuals...	$8,500	http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2008_jan/bea.html

Bridgestream	Enterprise Role Management software	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/bridgestream/index.html
Bharosa, Inc	Online Identity Theft and Fraud Detection	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_jul/bharosa.html
Agile Software Corporation Agile Software Corporation Agile Software Corporation , based in San Jose, California, manufactures product lifecycle management software.In February, 2005, Agile Software Corporation acquired Cimmetry Systems Corporation, a privately owned software developer specializing in enterprise visualization, for approximately...	Product Lifecycle Management Product lifecycle management In industry, product lifecycle management is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal...	$495	http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_may/agile.html
Lodestar Corporation	Utilities Application Software	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_apr/lodestar-acquisition.html
Hyperion Corporation	Enterprise Performance Management Enterprise performance management Enterprise Performance Management is a management field of Business Performance Management which considers the visibility of operations in a closed-loop model across all facets of the enterprise. There are several emerging domains in the EPM field which are being driven by corporate initiatives,...	$3,300	http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_mar/hyperion.html
Tangosol Inc	Datagrid Software	N/A	http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_mar/tangosol.html

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Digital rights management

Digital rights management is a class of access control technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale. DRM is any technology that inhibits uses of digital content that...

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Sunopsis

Sunopsis is software company based near Lyon, France. It also has a United States headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts. The company was bought by Oracle in October 2006....

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Data integration

Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of these data.This process becomes significant in a variety of situations, which include both commercial and scientific domains...

Portal Software

Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. Towards the end of the 1980s, the company offered...

Sleepycat Software

Sleepycat Software, Inc. was the company primarily responsible for maintaining the Berkeley DB packages from 1996 to 2006.Berkeley DB is a widely used and freely-licensed database software originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley for 4.4BSD Unix, and developers from that...

Siebel Systems

Siebel CRM Systems, Inc. was a software company principally engaged in the design, development, marketing, and support of customer relationship management applications. The company was founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993. At first known mainly for its sales force automation products, the company...

|Customer relationship management

Customer relationship management

Customer relationship management is a widely implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing,...

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OctetString

The commercial name OctetString refers to the former software firm based in Schaumburg, Illinois, that published OctetString Virtual Directory , a LDAP based virtual directory product focused on the identity management segment of the security software market.The company was founded in 2000 by...

Innobase

Innobase Oy is a Finnish company headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Innobase is best known for being the developer of InnoDB transactional storage engine for the MySQL open source database system. Innobase Oy is a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation, which acquired Innobase in 2005.- History :In 1995...

G-Log

Global Logistics Technologies, Inc., more commonly known as G-Log, was a privately held startup company based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and Shelton, CT, USA...

Enterprise Content Integration

Enterprise content integration is a middleware software technology, often used within large organizations, that connects together various types of computer systems that manage documents and digital content. ECI systems often work in tandem with other technologies such as enterprise content...

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TimesTen

TimesTen is an in-memory relational database software product from Oracle Corporation. TimesTen is designed for low latency, high-volume data, event and transaction management. Unlike disk-optimized relational databases such as the Oracle database, DB2, Informix, and SQL Server, TimesTen's data is...

Oblix

The commercial name Oblix may refer either to a suite of software designed to manage authentication identity or to the former company which developed that software.History:...

PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft, Inc. was a company that provided Human Resource Management Systems , Financial Management Solutions , Supply Chain and customer relationship management software, as well as software solutions for manufacturing, enterprise performance management, and student administration to large...

|Enterprise Software

Enterprise software

Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software , is software used in organizations, such as in a business or government, contrary to software chosen by individuals...

Filefish

Filefish are tropical to subtropical tetraodontiform marine fish of the diverse family Monacanthidae. Found in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, the filefish family contains approximately 107 species in 26 genera...

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Steltor

Steltor was a Montreal based collaborative software company. It was founded in 1988 by André Courtemanche under the name DEXOTEK, laterchanged name to Corporate Software and Technologies before settling on the name...

TopLink

In computing, TopLink is an object-relational mapping package for Java developers. It provides a framework for storing Java objects in a relational database or for converting Java objects to XML documents....

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|Darwin, datamining technology
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Oracle Rdb

Rdb/VMS is a relational database management system for the Hewlett-Packard OpenVMS operating system. It was originally created by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1984 as part of the VMS Information Architecture, intended to be used for data storage and retrieval by high-level languages and/or...

Division of Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...

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