Oracle

About Oracle

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Oracle

All products by Oracle reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI ServicesAI Cloud

AI services built into Oracle Cloud for developers and enterprises

Free7.8/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Oracle

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Oracle's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.6 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Oracle competes with, and how they differ.

Microsoft7.8/10

Azure, SQL Server and Dynamics compete directly with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Database and Fusion ERP across cloud infrastructure, database and enterprise applications.

9 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Amazon Web Services8.3/10

The largest cloud infrastructure provider; competes directly with OCI for general compute and AI workloads, while Oracle undercuts on licensing for Oracle-native database workloads.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Google8.0/10

Google Cloud's BigQuery and Vertex AI compete with Oracle Autonomous Database and OCI AI Services for enterprise data-warehouse and AI-infrastructure workloads.

6 products reviewed on TopReviewed

SAP

S/4HANA is Oracle Fusion Cloud's primary rival in enterprise ERP, with both vying for the same large-enterprise finance and HR modernization budgets.

Salesforce7.7/10

Leads CRM/CX software that overlaps with Oracle's Fusion CX Cloud, but is cloud-native only versus Oracle's on-prem-plus-cloud bundle.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

CoreWeave8.1/10

A GPU-cloud specialist that competes directly with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's AI-compute business for GPU-capacity contracts with AI labs, without Oracle's database/ERP portfolio.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Oracle's history, with sources.

1. Sep 10, 2025Milestone

   Cloud backlog jumps 359% to $455B, stock posts best day since 1992

   Oracle reported remaining performance obligations surging to $455B on AI-cloud demand; shares rose ~36% in a single session, adding $244B in market value and briefly making Larry Ellison the world's richest person.

   cnbc.com
2. July 2025Partnership

   Discloses $30B/year cloud-services contract later confirmed as OpenAI

   Oracle disclosed in an SEC filing a cloud-services agreement projected to generate over $30B in fiscal 2027 revenue; OpenAI was later confirmed as the customer, leasing ~4.5GW of data-center capacity under the Stargate venture.

   datacenterdynamics.com
3. Jan 21, 2025Partnership

   Joins OpenAI and SoftBank to launch the $500B Stargate AI-infrastructure project

   Oracle became a founding partner (with OpenAI, SoftBank and Abu Dhabi's MGX) in Stargate, a four-year plan to invest $500B in US AI data-center infrastructure, announced at the White House.

   datacenterdynamics.com
4. Apr 23, 2024Milestone

   Announces plan to move world headquarters to Nashville

   Chairman Larry Ellison said Oracle would build a new campus and move its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to the health-care industry Oracle entered via Cerner.

   cnbc.com
5. Jun 8, 2022Acquisition

   Closes $28.3B acquisition of Cerner

   Oracle completed its all-cash tender offer for electronic-health-records vendor Cerner at $95/share (~$28.3B equity value) after clearing FTC and European Commission review — Oracle's largest-ever acquisition.

   healthcaredive.com
6. Dec 11, 2020Milestone

   Announces headquarters move from California to Austin, Texas

   Oracle disclosed in an SEC filing that it had changed its corporate headquarters from Redwood City, California to Austin, Texas, alongside a more flexible remote-work policy.

   cnbc.com
7. Sep 18, 2014Milestone

   Larry Ellison steps down as CEO after 37 years

   Co-founder Larry Ellison became executive chairman and CTO; Safra Catz and Mark Hurd were named co-CEOs, splitting operational leadership of the company for the first time.

   cnbc.com
8. Jan 27, 2010Acquisition

   Completes $7.4B acquisition of Sun Microsystems

   Oracle closed its purchase of Sun Microsystems, gaining the Java programming language, Solaris operating system and SPARC hardware line and turning Oracle into a combined hardware-and-software vendor.

   phys.org
9. June 1979Launch

   Ships Oracle V2, the first commercial SQL relational database

   Skipping "version 1" as a marketing choice, the company released Oracle V2 running on PDP-11 hardware — the first commercially available SQL-based relational database management system.

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10. Jun 16, 1977Founded

    Founded as Software Development Laboratories

    Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates founded Software Development Laboratories in Santa Clara, California, later renamed Oracle after the relational-database project that inspired it.

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