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<img align="right" width="75" height="75" src="https://github.com/mearvk/SLeeLa/blob/master/images/oracle-002.png?raw=true" alt="Oracle logo">
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# Oracle
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**Oracle Corporation** is a major American enterprise-technology company whose history is closely associated with database software, enterprise computing, cloud infrastructure, Java, and a large body of software and developer technologies. This document records Oracle's historical and corporate context for the Brarner.M.Alete project.
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> **B.M.A. note:** This document recognizes Oracle's technical and historical significance without implying that Brarner.M.Alete is an Oracle product or that Oracle endorses the project.
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## A Respectful View of Oracle
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Oracle has made a substantial and lasting contribution to computing. Its database technology helped establish relational database systems as a central part of enterprise information systems, while its later work and acquisitions expanded its role into applications, cloud infrastructure, hardware, middleware, developer tooling, and Java.
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The appropriate form of support in this document is **moral and technical respect**: recognize useful work, preserve interoperability where practical, learn from established methods, and give credit to the people and institutions that helped build the computing ecosystem.
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## Founder — Larry Ellison
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**Larry Ellison** founded Oracle in **1977** and served as its CEO until September 2014. Oracle identifies him as its Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer. Oracle's own biography describes him as the company's founder and current chairman/CTO.
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Ellison's role is historically important to Oracle's development from a 1970s database company into a global enterprise-technology organization. His leadership is part of the historical context surrounding Oracle's database products, enterprise software strategy, and later expansion into cloud and other technologies.
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## Corporate Development and Support
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Oracle's corporate history includes a broad ecosystem of products, acquisitions, engineering organizations, customers, partners, developers, and employees. Among the technologies and organizations associated with its wider corporate history are:
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- Oracle Database and related database technologies.
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- Enterprise applications and middleware.
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- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and cloud services.
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- Java and the Java platform ecosystem.
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- Hardware and engineered systems.
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- Developer and enterprise tooling.
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- Technologies brought into Oracle through major acquisitions, including Sun Microsystems.
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Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle in 2010, bringing Java and other technologies into Oracle's portfolio. This makes Oracle a major institutional steward of the Java ecosystem even though Java itself has a much longer history and a much broader community than Oracle alone.
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## People and Employees
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Oracle reported approximately **141,000 full-time employees as of May 31, 2026**, including approximately 49,000 in the United States and 92,000 internationally.
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The same fiscal-2026 filing reports approximate workforce distribution of:
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| Area | Employees |
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| Research and development | 43,000 |
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| Services | 34,000 |
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| Cloud and software | 26,000 |
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| Sales and marketing | 25,000 |
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| General and administrative | 11,000 |
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| Hardware | 2,000 |
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| **Total** | **141,000** |
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Oracle reported an average employee tenure of approximately eight years, with 31% of employees having worked at Oracle for ten years or more.
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## Buildings, Facilities, and Global Infrastructure
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Oracle does not publish a single simple worldwide **building count** in its fiscal-2026 annual report. Instead, it describes its property footprint by facility type and square footage.
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As of May 31, 2026, Oracle reported:
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- Approximately **0.9 million square feet** at its Austin, Texas headquarters, which it owns.
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- Approximately **25.4 million square feet** of other office facilities in the United States and internationally.
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- Approximately **181 global data-center locations**, substantially all leased and used to deliver Oracle Cloud offerings.
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- Approximately **$21.263 billion** in gross buildings and improvements on its balance sheet at May 31, 2026.
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- Approximately **$39.973 billion** in construction in progress, primarily associated with infrastructure being developed for deployment, including data-center infrastructure.
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Because a data-center location is not necessarily a single building, the number of Oracle buildings should not be inferred from the number of reported locations.
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## Financial Position
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For the fiscal year ended **May 31, 2026**, Oracle reported:
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| Measure | FY2026 |
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| Revenue | **$67.357 billion** |
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| Net income | **$17.087 billion** |
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| Net income available to common shareholders | **$16.984 billion** |
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| Diluted EPS | **$5.83** |
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Oracle's fiscal-2026 annual report is the principal source for these figures.
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## Stock Symbol
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Oracle's common stock trades on the **New York Stock Exchange** under:
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**ORCL**
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Oracle's fiscal-2026 filing identifies ORCL as the common-stock trading symbol. The same filing also identifies ORCL-PRD for the company's Series D mandatory convertible preferred stock.
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## Stock Splits — 75-Year Historical Window
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Oracle was founded in 1977 and went public in 1986, so its publicly traded split history covers substantially less than 75 years.
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The documented common-stock split history contains **10 stock splits**, beginning in 1987 and ending in 2000:
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| Effective date | Split |
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| March 25, 1987 | 2-for-1 |
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| December 21, 1987 | 2-for-1 |
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| July 3, 1989 | 2-for-1 |
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| November 9, 1993 | 2-for-1 |
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| February 23, 1995 | 3-for-2 |
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| April 17, 1996 | 3-for-2 |
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| August 18, 1997 | 3-for-2 |
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| March 1, 1999 | 3-for-2 |
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| January 19, 2000 | 2-for-1 |
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| October 13, 2000 | 2-for-1 |
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Oracle's own 2000 investor announcement described the October 2000 transaction as its **tenth stock split since the March 1986 IPO**. No later common-stock split is identified in the sources reviewed for this document.
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## Legal and Corporate Conduct
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A fair corporate history should record both achievements and documented legal matters without exaggeration.
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There have been significant regulatory and civil enforcement matters involving Oracle and entities within its corporate history. These should not be confused with a statement that Oracle as a corporation is a convicted felon.
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### 2011 — GSA False Claims Act settlement
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Oracle Corp. and Oracle America Inc. agreed to pay **$199.5 million plus interest** to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit concerning contractual obligations under a General Services Administration software contract.
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### 2022 — FCPA settlement
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Oracle agreed to pay **more than $23 million** to resolve charges concerning Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations involving subsidiaries in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and India. The SEC said the subsidiaries created and used slush funds and that certain funds were used in connection with foreign officials.
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The SEC described the 2022 matter as Oracle's **second** FCPA-related enforcement action; it also referenced a 2012 matter involving Oracle India.
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These matters are important historical facts and should remain visible in a responsible corporate history. They do not by themselves establish that Oracle, Larry Ellison, or Oracle's employees generally are "felons." The sources reviewed for this document identify civil/regulatory enforcement and settlements rather than a corporate felony conviction.
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## A Note on "Notable Felons or Felonies"
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The term **felony** is a specific criminal-law classification and should not be applied merely because a company has paid a civil settlement, resolved an SEC enforcement action, or been subject to a regulatory proceeding.
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For this reason, this document does **not** label Oracle, Larry Ellison, or Oracle employees as felons without a documented criminal conviction establishing that fact.
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The better historical record is to identify the actual proceedings, the agency involved, the allegations or findings, the resolution, and the date. That approach preserves accuracy while still acknowledging difficult parts of corporate history.
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## Oracle and Brarner.M.Alete
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Brarner.M.Alete can regard Oracle as an important participant in modern enterprise computing and as a significant steward of technologies, including Java, that have influenced software development.
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The intended relationship is independent and respectful:
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This relationship does not imply sponsorship, endorsement, ownership, or affiliation. It simply records Oracle's place in the broader computing history relevant to the project.
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## Closing
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Oracle's history represents decades of substantial work in databases, enterprise computing, cloud infrastructure, software engineering, and Java. The company has also faced documented regulatory and legal challenges, which are appropriately preserved in an honest technical history.
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This project can recognize Oracle as an **important and influential corporate participant in modern computing** and a significant steward of technologies that have shaped the software industry. Respect for Oracle's useful contributions, respect for its engineers and developers, and careful study of established methods are constructive foundations for interoperability and independent implementation.
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Brarner.M.Alete's purpose is to develop its own capabilities while acknowledging the wider computing institutions and communities from which useful ideas, standards, and technologies have emerged.
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## Sources
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- Oracle — [Larry Ellison executive biography](https://www.oracle.com/emea/corporate/executives/larry-ellison/)
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- Oracle — [Data Center Locations](https://www.oracle.com/data-centers/)
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- Oracle — [Investor Relations](https://investor.oracle.com/)
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- U.S. SEC — [Oracle Corporation FY2026 Form 10-K](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312526277521/orcl-20260531.htm)
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- U.S. SEC — [2022 Oracle FCPA enforcement action](https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022-173)
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- U.S. Department of Justice — [2011 Oracle False Claims Act settlement](https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/oracle-agrees-pay-us-1995-million-resolve-false-claims-act-lawsuit)
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- Oracle Investor Relations — [October 2000 stock split announcement](https://investor.oracle.com/investor-news/news-details/2000/Oracle-Reports-Net-Income-Up-111-Earnings-Per-Share-017-Application-Sales-Up-42-Database-Sales-Up-32-Oracle-Stock-to-Split-2-for-1/default.aspx)
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*Prepared for the Brarner.M.Alete project, September 2026.*

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