ORACLE- The Power To Business

ORACLE- The term nowadays is an alias to Reliability and Strength. Oracle's version 1 came in 1978, with its latest version is coming as Oracle Fusion in 2009.

There is a small view of Technology Timeline of Oracle below:

. 1979: offers the first commercial SQL RDBMS.

• 1983: offers a VAX-mode database.


• 1984: offers the first database with read consistency.


• 1986: offers a client-server DBMS.


• 1987: introduces UNIX-based Oracle applications


• 1988: introduces PL/SQL.


• 1992: offers full applications implementation methodology.


• 1995: offers the first 64-bit RDBMS.


• 1996: moves towards an open standards-based, web-enabled architecture.


• 1999: offers its first DBMS with XML support.


• 2001: becomes the first to complete 3 terabyte TPC-H world record.


• 2002: offers the first database to pass 15 industry standard security evaluations.


• 2003: introduces what it calls "Enterprise Grid Computing" with Oracle10g.


• 2005: releases its first free database, Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (XE).


• 2006: becomes the global leader in CRM technologies by virtue of its takeover of Siebel Systems.


• 2008: smart scans in software speed query response in HP Oracle Database Machine / Exadata storage.