Which company began as Software Development Laboratories in 1977 and later became Oracle Corporation?

Software Development Laboratories, founded in 1977, later became Oracle Corporation.

Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates founded Software Development Laboratories in Santa Clara, California, in 1977. The company developed commercial database software, influenced by research describing a relational database model. Its first product was called Oracle, and the company adopted that name in 1982.

Oracle expanded from database software into enterprise applications, middleware, hardware, and cloud computing. Acquisitions such as PeopleSoft, Sun Microsystems, and Cerner broadened its business beyond its original database focus. Its recurring enterprise revenue and cloud growth helped make it one of the world's largest publicly traded technology companies by market capitalization.

The company is often confused with the Oracle database product. Oracle Corporation is the company; Oracle Database is one of its flagship software products. The 1977 founding date refers to the original company, not the later adoption of the Oracle name.