A far greater challenge to Oracle as a multinational corporation is its overall role in the international arena. The risks to international sales and operations include some of the following potentially adverse possibilities:
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Oracle Introduction When one thinks of leading multinational corporations, mature companies such as GE, IBM, and Johnson & Johnson generally leap to mind. However, in 1977, only a quarter century ago, Larry Ellison and two partners founded Oracle Corporation. Oracle, widely regarded as one of the world's largest software developers and providers second only to Microsoft, has grown swiftly in its brief history. With fiscal year 2002 annual revenue surpassing $9.7 billion, Oracle maintained its status as the number one enterprise software company in the world, and also fully embraced the power of the Internet and other fast growing technologies such as voice and wireless. The analysis that follows investigated Oracle further to assess its many attributes that have contributed to its success, and also looked at some of its failures and the challenges it still faces as a multinational corporation. Finally, this analysis shifted to the future and assessed...


