Oracle, one of the world's largest enterprise-software companies by market value, was originally incorporated under what name in 1977?

Oracle was originally incorporated in 1977 as Software Development Laboratories.

Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates founded Software Development Laboratories in Santa Clara, California. The company pursued database software influenced by relational-database research, including concepts associated with IBM researcher Edgar F. Codd.

The business changed its name to Relational Software, Inc. in 1979 and later became Oracle Systems Corporation in 1982. It adopted the shorter name Oracle Corporation in 1995. These successive names create a common mix-up: Relational Software was an intermediate corporate name, while Software Development Laboratories was the original one. Oracle's famous database product and later acquisitions, including Sun Microsystems, helped turn the company into a major enterprise-technology provider.