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oracle ???

What oracle is all about? Is this an software or any application developement tool? Ppl who know abt this plz help me to clear my doubts? How can i study Oracle? Is there any institute offering courses in oracle and how will be the job prospects if i finish this course?

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1. Oracle is an ERP (Entreprise Resource Planning) system. Usually use by those manufacturing company to manage the end to end process like from planning until shipping. More details from Wikipedia:- Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is one of the major companies developing database management systems (DBMS), tools for database development, middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software. Oracle was founded in 1977, and has offices in more than 145 countries around the world. As of 2005, it employed more than 50,000 people worldwide and is the world's second largest software company. Lawrence J. Ellison (Larry Ellison) has served as Oracle's CEO throughout the company's history. Ellison served as the Chairman of the Board until his replacement by Jeffrey O. Henley in 2004. Ellison retains his role as CEO. Forbes magazine once judged Ellison the richest man in the world.
2. Oracle is company who most say is one of the leading suppliers of information management systems. They offer a lot of applications/software packages to the market (eg Oracle Financials, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Datawarehouse). Most notable of which is their Relational Database Management Systems (latest version is Oracle 11g). Oracle databases are widely used in big companies and a lot of websites due to its robustness, reliability, speed, & scalability.
3. oracle is the integral suite for the Database server and client applications its a management suite that is used to create database and all other objects on the database server of the oracle that is used to create data rich applications that store and fetch data continuously and even on the network