Oracle, a major market-cap software company, was originally founded under which name in 1977?

Oracle was originally founded under the name Software Development Laboratories in 1977.

Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates established Software Development Laboratories in Santa Clara, California, on June 16, 1977. The company focused on database software and drew inspiration from an IBM research paper describing a relational database model.

The business changed its name to Relational Software, Inc. in 1979. In 1982, it adopted the name Oracle Systems Corporation, reflecting the identity of its principal database product. It later became Oracle Corporation.

A common mistake is treating “Oracle” as the company’s original legal name. Oracle was first the name of a database project and product before becoming the corporate name. The company’s database business remains central to its long history in enterprise computing.