The computer software industry is a versatile industry that lends itself to many innovative approaches to addressing technological issues. It is also among the best paying industries globally. Venturing into this industry to work with firms that have their origins in Silicon Valley such as Microsoft Corporation would be a prudent move, because of the industry’s global outreach, its rate of growth, and the insatiable demand for computer-based electronic goods that require programming at one point or another. Nevertheless, I would like to work with Oracle programming in SQL, which was an idea borne of two programmers, and is a universally utilized programming language that requires very few resources (otherwise called raw materials).
Oracle Company began more than three decades ago, and was the brainchild of two people namely Bob Miner and Larry Ellison. The two programmers had been working with databases before they decided to venture out on their own. Therefore, Oracle is more of a database management systems programming company than it is a software company in any other programming activities. Headquartered in California USA, Oracle has outlets in other continents as well (Oracle, p. 1-2; Success Story, p. 1). In Africa, for example, the company has partnered with Software Technologies Limited, which also champions the development and management of databases through software development.
Like any company that thrives on specialization and labor distribution, Oracle started off with one partner marketing the products they made while the other concentrated on the architectural aspects. From 1977, when there were only a couple of employees, Oracle now boasts of a worldwide outreach exceeding fifty countries. Its trademark programming language is Structured Query Language (SQL), which can be used in any operating system hence its versatility. This has morphed into other programs like MySQL and Oracle Fusion Middleware(Success Story, p. 1).
The computer programming industry is fraught with security issues that have spawned the variety of anti-malware companies like Norton, Kaspersky, and Avira, which use the programming languages to thwart the efforts of fraudulent internet users to exploit weaknesses in the operating systems they use, or their ignorance of ways through which they can be the cause of their own security breaches. Many companies have been the victims of security breaches involving the inadvertent revelations of thousands of personally identifying data, passwords and login details (s), which are then sold in the computer black market that thrives on the proceeds from malware distribution. Oracle does not seem to have been affected by any of these security challenges. On the contrary, the company prides itself in being the standard used in making databases, especially relational databases. Oracle not only makes software, but also integrates the same into custom built hardware that is later sold to other companies (Oracle, p. 1-3).
Trending news about Oracle features its lawsuit against Google for infringement of copyright. Oracle wants Google to pay more than nine billion dollars for having built software that closely resembles that of Oracle (Vanian, p. 1). No other lawsuits appear to be more important than this one at the moment.
Works Cited
Oracle. "Oracle's 30th Anniversary." 2007. Oracle. 14 May 2016 <http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/profit/p27anniv-timeline-151918.pdf>.
Success Story. "Oracle Corporation Story." 2016. Success Story. 14 May 2016 <http://successstory.com/companies/oracle-corporation>.
Vanian, Jonathan. "Oracle Wants Google To Cough Up $9.3 Billion." 2016. Fortune. 14 May 2016 <http://fortune.com/2016/03/28/oracle-google-legal-billions/>.
