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Note
The previous table does not pursue the presentation of the complete historical perspective
of Oracle's acquisitions and development milestones, but merely links the key middleware
products with the history of SOA's WS-* standards implementation by the most influen-
tial standardization agencies. For recent acquisitions in the Oracle Middleware products
family, please visit http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/index.html and refer
to the Middleware section.
Middleware products were not the primary line of business for the company, which was
initially prominent for its DB products. For almost two decades since the early eighties,
Oracle was a relational database management system ( RDBMS ) flagship company,
providing reliable relational DB and data processing commercial products literally for all
industries. Again, mainly through the chain of acquisitions, practically all enterprise do-
mains, such as ERP, CRM, SCM, and HCM, were covered by DB-centric applications:
Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Primavera, and Siebel. Business do-
mains are truly enterprise wide, shown as follows:
• Financial management : This is useful in General Ledger, Accounts Payable and
Receivable, Asset Management, and so on
• Human capital management : This is useful in Global Human Resources, Global
Payroll, Benefits and Performance Management, and so on
• Supply chain management : This is useful in Inventory, Shipping and Receiving,
Distributed Order Orchestration, Cost Management, and so on
• Project portfolio management : This is useful in Project Costing, Control and
Billing, Performance Reporting, and so on
• Procurement : This is useful in Purchasing, Sourcing, Supplier Management,
Spend and Performance Analysis, and so on
• Customer relationship management : This is useful in Customer Master, Sales,
Marketing, Quota Management, Social Media, Portals, and so on
Common to all these suites are the Access Controls, Configuration Controls and KPIs, BI
Dashboards, and Extendibility Foundation packs.
This massive application stack has been building gradually over the years, accommodat-
ing requirements from all industries, such as Telecommunication, Healthcare, Logistics
and Transportation, and Governance, among others. Oracle's own DB-based flagship
product, E-Business Suite, accommodated 1,000 lines of PL/SQL code in every business
module, not mentioning C and Java.