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MySQL AB was a Swedish software company founded in 1995. It was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, [1] Sun was in turn acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010. MySQL AB is the creator of MySQL, a relational database management system, as well as related products such as MySQL Cluster.
MySQL (/ ˌ m aɪ ˌ ɛ s ˌ k juː ˈ ɛ l /) [6] is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). [6] [7] Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, [1] and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language.
This is a listing of Oracle Corporation's corporate acquisitions, including acquisitions of both companies and individual products. Oracle's version [1] does not include value of the acquisition. [2] See also Category:Sun Microsystems acquisitions (Sun was acquired by Oracle).
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. [5] Co-founded in 1977 in Santa Clara, California, by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world in 2020 by revenue and market capitalization. [6]
This list comprises the largest companies currently in the United States by revenue as of 2024, according to the Fortune 500 tally of companies and Forbes. The Fortune 500 list of companies includes only publicly traded companies, also including tax inversion companies. There are also corporations having foundation in the United States, such as ...
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Some big companies practice multi-branding -- running apparently competing brands within the same industry to soak up more market share. Competing brands that are actually owned by the same ...
In November 2016, Oracle bought NetSuite for $9.3 billion. Ellison owned 35% of NetSuite at the time of the purchase making him $3.5 billion personally. [48] In 2017, Forbes estimated that Ellison was the 4th richest person in tech. [49] In June 2018, Ellison's net worth was about $54.5 billion, according to Forbes. [50]