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Oracle Corporation

American multinational computer corporation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Co-founded in Santa Clara, California, in 1977 by Bob Miner, Ed Oates, and current chairman of the board and chief technology officer Larry Ellison, Oracle is among the 50 largest companies in the world by market cap, and ranked 66th on the Forbes Global 2000 as of 2025.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Oracle Corporation” as american multinational computer corporation. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oracle, Corporation and American.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 2000, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Oracle, Corporation and American providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Oracle Corporation”, the useful work is to connect “american multinational computer corporation” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1977, 2000 and 2025.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oracle Corporation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.