What is Oracle Database ?

Oracle is the leading RDBMS (Relational Data Base Management System) available in the modern market. Oracle Software is produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation (www.oracle.com). Oracle Corporation has many other products based on Applications, Middleware, Server and Storage Systems etc. Recently Oracle has acquired Java and MySQL were MySQL is a open source database.

Major mile stones

* 1977 – Oracle founded
* 1983 – Oracle database 3
* 1992 – Oracle database 7
* 1997 – Oracle database 8
* 1999 – Oracle database 8i
* 2001 – Oracle database 9i
* 2003 – Oracle database 10g
* 2007 – Oracle database 11g

Oracle database 11g release 2 is the latest.

Read more on how to install Oracle 11g on Ubuntu Linux here 

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