History of Oracle Technology Introductions

1979

Oracle Release 2--the first commercially available relational database to use SQL

1983

Single code base for Oracle across multiple platforms

1984

Portable toolset

1986

Client/server Oracle relational database

1987

CASE and 4GL toolset

1988

Oracle Financial Applications built on relational database

1989

Oracle6 1991 Oracle Parallel Server on massively parallel platforms

1993

Oracle7 with cost-based optimizer

1994

Oracle Version 7.1 generally available: parallel operations including query, load, and create index

1996

Universal database with extended SQL via cartridges, thin client, and application server

1997

Oracle8 generally available: including object-relational and Very Large Database (VLDB) features

1999

Oracle8i generally available: Java Virtual Machine ( JVM) in the database

2000

Oracle9i Application Server generally available: Oracle tools integrated in middle tier

2001

Oracle9i Database Server generally available: Real Application Clusters, Advanced Analytic Services