The main purpose of the digital certificate is to ensure that the application belongs to the entity to which the certificate was issued. The Oracle Corporation digital certificate does not guarantee that a signed application is safe to run, but rather informs the user that the software was digitally signed by Oracle Corporation and verified by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA).
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems. Oracle is the third-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft and IBM. The company also builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software.
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“With more than 380,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—and with deployments across a wide variety of industries in more than 145 countries around the globe, Oracle offers an optimized and fully integrated stack of business hardware and software systems. Oracle Database—the world’s first commercial relational database, as well as a critical tool in the implementation of cloud computing environments—helps ensuralways available and secure. Oracle is the most reliable choice for enterprises and departments of any size. Oracle Fusion Middleware consolidates Oracle’s leading standards-based infrastructure software to deliver hot-pluggable middleware with a comprehensive, seamlessly integrated, service-oriented architecture software infrastructure.”