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Ora Cogan

Ora Cogan is a Canadian experimental folk singer-songwriter from Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, based on Vancouver Island. Albums include Crickets (2017), Formless (2023), and her Sacred Bones debut Hard Hearted Woman (2026); distinct from the French DJ Cogan.

Oct 22, 2026

Ora Maritima

Ora Maritima, Latin for "The Sea Coast," is a fourth-century AD Latin geographic poem by Avienius describing the coasts of western Europe and the Mediterranean in the periplus genre.

Sep 21, 2026

Ora Mendelsohn Rosen

Ora Mendelsohn Rosen (1935–1990) was an American biochemist who showed the insulin receptor is an insulin-activated tyrosine kinase, helped clone its gene in 1985, and led research at Einstein and Sloan Kettering.

Ora!

Ora! (ORA!), formerly the Drin Drin movement, is an Italian political party founded in 2024 by economist Michele Boldrin and entrepreneur Alberto Forchielli, with a founding congress in October 2025 and a program of structural reform.

Oracene Price

Oracene Price, nicknamed Brandy, American tennis coach and mother of Venus and Serena Williams; co-coached them with Richard Williams, whom she married in 1980 and split from in 2003; portrayed by Aunjanue Ellis in King Richard.

Oracle

An oracle is a place, person, or practice through which a deity is believed to answer human questions, consulted by Greeks for over a thousand years.

Oracle Alloy

Oracle Alloy is a cloud platform announced by Oracle in 2022 that lets service providers, integrators, and other organizations resell Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services under their own brand.

Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC

Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC was a copyright lawsuit over Google's use of Java API code in Android, decided for Google by the Supreme Court in 2021.

Oracle Applications

Oracle Applications, also known as Oracle Apps, is Oracle Corporation's family of business software spanning ERP, supply chain, human capital management, and customer experience, including Fusion Cloud and NetSuite.

Oct 26, 2026

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) is Oracle's self-managing cloud data warehouse, launched March 2018 on Oracle Database 18c, offering automated patching, tuning, and scaling, and now continuing as Autonomous AI Lakehouse.

Oracle bone

Oracle bones: ox scapulae and turtle plastrons used for pyromantic divination in China's Shang dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BCE), bearing jiaguwen, the earliest written records of Chinese civilization, deciphered since 1899.

Oracle bone script (甲骨文)

Oracle bone script (甲骨文, jiaguwen), the earliest mature Chinese writing, carved on turtle plastrons and ox scapulae for Shang dynasty divination, c. 1250–1045 BCE, mostly at Yinxu, Anyang; discovered 1899; over 4,500 character classes, about one-third deciphered.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (AI)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI is Oracle's portfolio of AI compute offerings, centered on GPU superclusters and a managed generative AI service that reached general availability in January 2024.

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American technology company founded by Larry Ellison and colleagues in 1977, known for its databases, enterprise applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, its AI-focused cloud business.

Oracle Database

Oracle Database, also known as Oracle RDBMS, is a commercial multi-model relational database management system sold by Oracle Corporation, first released in 1979 as the first commercial SQL-based RDBMS.

Oracle decrees of Amun

The oracle decrees of Amun, also called oracle consultations of Amun, are written records of verdicts given by the god Amun at Thebes in the Third Intermediate Period.

Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is a suite of integrated business applications from Oracle covering ERP, CRM, financials, and supply chain, first shipped in 2000 as Release 11i.

Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP

Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP is Oracle's cloud-native ERP suite running as software as a service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, covering finance, procurement, supply chain, and HR on a single data model.

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM is a cloud-based human capital management software suite from Oracle, launched in 2012 and serving over 4,200 midsize and large enterprise customers worldwide.

Oracle GoldenGate

Oracle GoldenGate is a log-based change data capture and real-time data replication platform that continuously captures committed transactions from database transaction logs and applies them to other databases with minimal impact on the source.

Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux, also known as Oracle Unbreakable Linux, is a free Linux distribution launched by Oracle in 2006 as a Red Hat Enterprise Linux-compatible offering.

Oracle machine

An oracle machine, also called an oracle Turing machine, is a Turing machine that queries a fixed set as an oracle, introduced by Alan Turing in 1939.

Oracle of Nusku

The Oracle of Nusku is the modern name for an unnamed female slave who, in Esarhaddon's reign (681–669 BC), proclaimed near Harran that the god Nusku would give kingship to Sasi.

Oracle of the Lamb

The Oracle of the Lamb, also called the Prophecy of the Lamb, is a Demotic Egyptian text in which a lamb prophesies the end of foreign rule to King Bocchoris.

Oracle of the Potter

The Oracle of the Potter, also known as the Potter's Oracle, is a Greek prophetic text of Ptolemaic Egypt predicting a native king who ends Greek rule.

Oracle Park

Oracle Park (formerly Pacific Bell Park, SBC Park, AT&T Park) is the San Francisco Giants' waterfront MLB stadium, opened April 11, 2000, privately financed at $357 million, a pitcher's park with McCovey Cove splash hits and a 42,300 capacity.

Oracle WebLogic

Oracle WebLogic is a commercial Jakarta EE application server for developing and deploying enterprise Java applications, sold by Oracle since its 2008 acquisition of BEA Systems.

Oracle–OpenAI cloud deal

The Oracle–OpenAI cloud deal is a July 2025 agreement under which OpenAI committed to buy roughly $300 billion of computing capacity from Oracle over about five years.

Oracular Amuletic Decrees

Oracular Amuletic Decrees are written divine oracles of Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, around 1069 to 715 BCE, promising named private people, mostly children, protection against everyday misfortunes; 24 are known.