Like many Oracle products, they didn't write it from scratch, they acquired it – from Citibank. In the early 1990s, Citibank set up a subsidiary in Mumbai to ma

Like many Oracle products, they didn't write it from scratch, they acquired it – from Citibank. In the early 1990s, Citibank set up a subsidiary in Mumbai to maintain their banking software, and sell it to other banks. Citibank ended up selling that subsidiary to Oracle, although Oracle is only the majority shareholder, and a minority of the stock is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange. When I worked at Oracle, I was involved on the periphery of it, in the middleware products that it used, but I never actually saw the product itself.