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+# Oracle
+
+## A Respectful View of Oracle
+
+Oracle is one of the major enterprise technology companies associated with databases, enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, engineered systems, and Java. This document records Oracle's history and publicly documented corporate facts in a respectful, factual way, including matters of particular relevance to Java-based software projects.
+
+Oracle's technologies have played a significant role in enterprise computing, and Oracle's stewardship of Java has made the company an important part of the Java ecosystem that this repository uses and builds upon.
+
+## Larry Ellison
+
+Larry Ellison founded Oracle in 1977. He served as Oracle's Chief Executive Officer until September 2014 and continues as Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer.
+
+Ellison's long association with Oracle is central to the company's history. Under Oracle's development, the company grew from a database-focused enterprise into a broad technology company spanning databases, applications, cloud infrastructure, engineered systems, and Java.
+
+## Corporate Development and Support
+
+Oracle's corporate technology portfolio has included:
+
+- Oracle Database and related data-management technologies.
+- Enterprise applications, middleware, and developer technologies.
+- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and associated cloud services.
+- Java and the Java platform following Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
+- Hardware and engineered systems associated with enterprise computing.
+- A large worldwide enterprise-support and services organization.
+
+For Java projects, Oracle's stewardship of the Java platform is especially relevant. This repository is a Java 21 server platform, and its use of standard Java technologies places it within a broader ecosystem that Oracle has helped maintain and develop.
+
+## Employees
+
+Oracle reported approximately **141,000 full-time employees as of May 31, 2026**.
+
+The company's FY2026 employee distribution was reported approximately as:
+
+| Area | Employees |
+|---|---:|
+| Research and Development | 43,000 |
+| Services | 34,000 |
+| Cloud and Software | 26,000 |
+| Sales and Marketing | 25,000 |
+| General and Administrative | 11,000 |
+| Hardware | 2,000 |
+
+Oracle also reported an average employee tenure of approximately eight years, with approximately 31% of employees having ten or more years of service.
+
+## Buildings and Facilities
+
+Oracle does **not** publish a simple worldwide count of every building it occupies, so this document does not invent a building total.
+
+Oracle's FY2026 filing reported:
+
+- Approximately **0.9 million square feet** at its Austin, Texas headquarters, which Oracle owns.
+- Approximately **25.4 million square feet** of other office facilities worldwide.
+- Approximately **181 data-center locations** worldwide.
+- Approximately **$21.263 billion** in gross carrying amount for buildings and improvements at May 31, 2026.
+- Approximately **$39.973 billion** in construction in progress at May 31, 2026.
+
+Data-center locations should not be treated as a count of all Oracle buildings; they are a distinct infrastructure category.
+
+## Financial Position
+
+For fiscal year 2026, Oracle reported:
+
+| Measure | FY2026 |
+|---|---:|
+| Total revenue | **$67.357 billion** |
+| Net income | **$17.087 billion** |
+| Net income available to common shareholders | **$16.984 billion** |
+| Diluted earnings per share | **$5.83** |
+
+These figures describe Oracle Corporation's reported fiscal-year financial results and are not a forecast.
+
+## Stock Symbol
+
+Oracle Corporation's common stock trades on the **New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)** under the symbol:
+
+**ORCL**
+
+Oracle also has a preferred-stock security listed as **ORCL-PRD**.
+
+## Stock Splits
+
+Oracle has completed **10 common-stock splits since its initial public offering**, with the most recent split occurring in October 2000.
+
+| Date | Split |
+|---|---:|
+| March 25, 1987 | 2-for-1 |
+| December 21, 1987 | 2-for-1 |
+| July 3, 1989 | 2-for-1 |
+| November 9, 1993 | 2-for-1 |
+| February 23, 1995 | 3-for-2 |
+| April 17, 1996 | 3-for-2 |
+| August 18, 1997 | 3-for-2 |
+| March 1, 1999 | 3-for-2 |
+| January 19, 2000 | 2-for-1 |
+| October 13, 2000 | 2-for-1 |
+
+There were no additional common-stock splits in the documented period after October 2000.
+
+## Legal and Corporate Conduct
+
+A responsible corporate history should record significant legal and regulatory matters without turning civil or regulatory proceedings into unsupported criminal labels.
+
+Notable documented matters include:
+
+- **2011 — U.S. False Claims Act settlement:** Oracle Corporation and Oracle America agreed to pay **$199.5 million plus interest** to resolve allegations concerning a General Services Administration contract. This was a civil False Claims Act matter.
+- **2011 — Sun Microsystems-related False Claims Act matter:** Oracle America paid **$46 million** to resolve allegations related to Sun Microsystems after Oracle acquired Sun.
+- **2022 — Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matter:** Oracle agreed to pay **more than $23 million** to resolve SEC charges involving subsidiaries in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and India. The SEC described the matter as Oracle's second FCPA-related enforcement action and referenced an earlier Oracle India matter.
+
+These proceedings are important parts of the public record. Civil settlements, SEC enforcement actions, and corporate regulatory resolutions are not the same thing as a criminal conviction.
+
+## A Note on “Notable Felons or Felonies”
+
+The requested phrase “Notable Felons or Felonies” requires care.
+
+This document does not label Oracle Corporation, Larry Ellison, or Oracle employees as “felons” without a documented criminal conviction establishing that status. Instead, it identifies significant public legal and regulatory proceedings involving Oracle and describes their nature accurately.
+
+That distinction preserves both the seriousness of documented corporate conduct and the principle that a civil or regulatory proceeding should not be represented as a criminal conviction.
+
+## Oracle and This Java 21 Project
+
+This repository, **Java.Web.Server.Telnet.Front.Java.21**, is a substantial Java 21 server platform. It includes Java servers, TCP/telnet services, web frontends, configuration systems, databases, cryptographic services, and JavaFX/C/C++ administrative components.
+
+Oracle's role in Java is therefore directly relevant to the technical lineage of this project:
+
+```
+Java language and platform
+        ↓
+Java SE / JDK ecosystem
+        ↓
+Java 21 application source
+        ↓
+This repository's Java services
+        ↓
+Server, Telnet, TCP, HTTP, web, and administrative systems
+```
+
+The project can acknowledge Oracle's stewardship of Java while remaining an independent software implementation and repository.
+
+## Corporate Support and the Broader Computing World
+
+Oracle's continuing investment in enterprise software, databases, cloud infrastructure, and Java has supported a large body of commercial, governmental, educational, and independent computing work.
+
+For this repository, the most relevant contribution is the continued existence and development of the Java platform on which Java 21 applications can be built, deployed, administered, and maintained.
+
+A respectful technical history can recognize those contributions while still documenting corporate controversies and legal matters accurately.
+
+## Closing Note
+
+Oracle is an important and influential participant in modern computing. Its history includes major contributions to database technology, enterprise computing, cloud infrastructure, and the Java ecosystem, alongside documented regulatory and civil proceedings that belong in a complete corporate record.
+
+For a Java 21 project, recognizing Oracle's place in the history of Java is appropriate. This repository can use that history as technical context while continuing to develop its own software, engineering practices, and independent direction.
+
+**Oracle's place in computing is substantial, its corporate history is worth documenting carefully, and its relationship to Java makes it particularly relevant to this project.**
+
+---
+
+## Sources
+
+- Oracle — Larry Ellison biography and company history.
+- Oracle Investor Relations — historical stock-split information.
+- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Oracle Corporation FY2026 Form 10-K.
+- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — 2022 Oracle FCPA enforcement action.
+- U.S. Department of Justice — 2011 Oracle False Claims Act settlement.
+- Oracle — data-center and infrastructure information.
+
+*Prepared for Java.Web.Server.Telnet.Front.Java.21, September 2026.*