Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. The company specializes primarily in developing and marketing database software and technology, cloud engineered systems and enterprise software products — particularly its own brands of database management systems. In 2015, Oracle was the second-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft. 

The company also develops and builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, customer relationship management (CRM) software and supply chain management (SCM) software. 

Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL). Ellison took inspiration from the 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database management systems (RDBMS) named "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks." He heard about the IBM System R database from an article in the "IBM Research Journal" provided by Oates. Also derived from Codd's theories, Ellison wanted to make Oracle's product compatible with System R, but failed to do so as IBM kept the error codes for their DBMS a secret. SDL changed its name to Relational Software, Inc (RSI) in 1979, then again to Oracle Systems Corporation in 1982, to align itself more closely with its flagship product Oracle Database. At this stage Bob Miner served as the company's senior programmer. On March 12, 1986, the company had its initial public offering. In 1995, Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corporation, officially named Oracle, but sometimes referred to as Oracle Corporation, the name of the holding company. Part of Oracle Corporation's early success arose from using the C programming language to implement its products. This eased porting to different operating systems (most of which support C). QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What does Oracle Corporation do?
2. What is the purpose of Oracle Corporation?
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1. Where is Oracle Corporation located?
2. Where can Oracle Corporation be found?
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1. What was the source of Larry Ellison's inspiration?
2. What gave Larry Ellison the idea for his company?
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Q4:
1. Who cofounded Oracle Corporation?
2. Who founded Oracle Corpor together?
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1. What was the date of Oracle Corporation's initial public offering?
2. When did Oracle Corporation first become open to the public?
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1. What does rational database management mean?
2. What is the definition of rational database management?
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Q7:
1. Who is Larry Ellison?
2. What does Larry Ellison do?
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1. What took place in 2015?
2. What was important about 2015 for Oracle Corporation?
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Q9:
1. What does Oracle Corporation make in addition to software?
2. What besides software does Oracle Corporation produce?
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Q10:
1. Who penned a paper in 1970?
2. Who was the author of a 1970 manuscript?
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