Oracle near China

The Oracle Ma Dongquan Oracle, who is approaching China, who is from $ 2,000, to the world's largest database software developer, the second largest independent software developer, with an annual income of more than 10 billion dollars, Oracle has passed a track of twists and turns. In June 1977, Larry Ellison and Bob Meena, Edward Otz Three partnership have funded $ 2,000 to set up a new company named Software Development Laboratory, which has a new company in Santa Clara, California. A small office. At that time, IBM researchers published a midburns "R System: Database Management Relationship Method", introducing relational database theory and query language SQL. With this research results, you can solve the problem of independence and compatibility between the early database, you can summarize, analyze and classify. After that, the Software Development Lab Company has developed a relational database management system Oracle 1 with this, and the company also renamed Oracle. Early Oracle versions were very unsatisfactory, and the program was full of errors. Fortunately, many early users do not care very much about lost data and followed, because customers are more important to advance rather than the product itself. Early Oracle's work is not just selling products, more is the concept of publicity relations database, and no longer demonstrates the relationship of Oracle. Ellison, president of the company, believes that the future is not only high-tech competition, but also makes users a environment. This makes Oracle special attention to the customer's ability to operate the company's products. Today, Oracle still uses nearly half of employees responsible for customers' consultation and operating services. In 1988, Oracle launched a version 6.0, which is the most powerful database product at that time. However, because Oracle is eager to use it to seize the market, the test work is not doing well, and users who use the 6th edition have encountered frequent crashes and database damage until the 6.0.27 release, the product is basically stable, the mantissa 27 indicates that it has passed it. 27 major modifications. Even if you encounter such a major quality problem, most users have not turned to the products of other companies, as this means to override all applications, which is very huge. Therefore, once the user has selected a certain database platform for development, it is difficult to turn over to use other database products. In terms of new products, the company has learned the lesson of Oracle 6 in a hurry, after several years of brewing, until June 1992, launched Oracle 7th edition. It turns out that Oracle 7 is a quite excellent product, the market has achieved great success, but also consolidated the status of Oracle database software boss, which enabled the company to go high-speed road. With the coming of the Internet age, the rise of e-commerce, the importance of network database is getting more and more prominent. Oracle has developed the first to develop and deliver 100% database, corporate business applications, application development, and decision support tools. There are currently ten websites in the world's traffic, and it is Oracle's database. Today's Oracle's market value once reached $ 184 billion, it has become one of the world's largest companies, with IBM, Microsoft, and Intel becomes a giant of the information industry.

Unreal and unuspetent people

After the New Year's Day, New Year's Day, the snow behind Beijing has not turned out, but there is already a little breath. After more than an hour's drive, I came to a community located in Changping District, Beijing. The purpose of this trip is to explore, it is to develop commercial database management systems and XML middleware. Application as a core business Beijing Unusual Software Co., Ltd. Before the decision is in close contact with the very intimate contact, I first browsed its website (www.ef-software.com ) And the search engine Google has a different song of the same work in simple and simple. Nonetheless, I can still get a lot of information about the extrapise software from the website. DataWare is an unusual core software product, a database management system (DBMS) that is fully relying entirely on the R & D software engineer. Currently, companies in China are not a lot, on the one hand, because the market is completely monopolized by foreign software giants, on the other hand, there are almost more or less colleges and universities in domestic companies, are transformed from colleges and universities. It is, so the market competition is not strong, and academic components are far from commercial components. So why is the Minute Software Company to squeeze into DBMS high technology requirements, fierce competition, and small profit space? With this curios, I knocked on the unusual door. Everyone in the company seems to have a busy thing, and the computer on the table has been running at full speed. Due to the size of the scale, unluted did not set the public relations manager or the position of the receptionist, receiving me is the company's general manager Shen Meng, a high thin young man. After the fall, he personally handed me the drink. When I asked "Why didn't I rent a city center office building, hire a reception and service person like other new companies, and he smiled and said that the goal was laughed. It is doing things instead of burning, and there is no extra money, a software company or a software company that wants to move to success should put a limited resource into the key location, not to show the show, this is As the saying goes, good steel should be used on the blade! His answer allowed me to feel that a lot of people may really have a little different, and there is a small episode that reflects the unique style of Shen Meng representative, is his "Shen" ", Usually, the young people who have already first like to shape the image very" tall ". Even if only the wave commander will give himself a CEO, the president's head, but when I called" Summit ", he swayed and revealed It's a smile like a sign, "Don't call me, you will use the name, the people here never call the call, everyone is for their own software dreams rather than the title, and now the society What always is more than the sand in the stream! Haha ... "This time reminds me of a book that describes the Silicon Valley" "The company is equal, there is no level concept". After a short cold, we gradually entered the theme of this interview - Shen Meng and his unusual software company should choose DBMS as a core business.

Perhaps some people have also put forward similar problems, he quickly introduced a group of data, each year, our country's purchasing funds for DBMS, is almost 2.5 billion yuan (Note: RMB), including software products and related supporting services The total cost is roughly 200 billion, but this 20 billion in "four major" in the United States "(Note: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase) takes 96%, and less than 4% of the share is large or abroad. Small and medium-sized brands, there is less than 1% of domestic manufacturers to eat! The average person seems that the company chooses such a market, no vast-to-arm shock, but the DBMS market is full of blasting, but still finds a foothold. His words make me very confused, I really don't know why the Unreview is going against the gambling in the world. According to a data introduction, in 2002, China DBMS procurement industry distribution, 26% of finance, 20% telecommunications, 17% of the government, 9% of the manufacturing industry, 7% traffic, 7% energy, 7% Any one is the economic lifeline that is related to the people's livelihood. I have long heard that the United States has made the Iraqi command system when the Bay War will make the Iraqi command system, Saddam lost "US aid" (Note: Refers to the computer command system manufactured by the United States! " Now I am completely clear, why everyone is paying attention to the domestic operating system and domestic CPU, why the unuspetent people will take their own way, because DBMS is the most important system software outside the operating system - the king of data. DataWare

Naturally, our conversation will be moved to be regarded as a hope, and the DataWare, which is a heavy responsibility (Note: DataWare is the DBMS brand of the Unusual Company). DataWare includes two versions of DataWare Pro and C / S networks in a single-machine mode, now version 1.0. According to Shen Meng, the main use of DBMS is to build a network-based data platform. Develop applications for different needles on this platform, so DBMS is not software for individual users, main sales objects are corporate users, like software developers . In the application range of DBMS, large as ERP (Enterprise Resource Plan), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), OA (Office Automation), Small to Handheld Computer, Smartphone Data Instant Update, Mobile E-Commerce, Almost all are data Products for managed or data streams. When talking about the outlook for development, Shen Meng is full of confidence, but it is also a bit helpless, because can domestic DBMS can have their own sky, mainly watching application software developers can support, like Linux, the ability can be higher than Windows A lot, but no application is useless, DBMS needs to be supported by application. He said that it is very difficult to find unuspeary application partners, because "the four major US" is in size, capital, market or technology has taken the opportunity, and the vast majority of domestic software companies are like very likely Small company, therefore formed a market MAD effect, that is, "customers need your good price", but because your size is not big enough, you can't let them have enough confidence, leading to high prices to buy big companies, at the same time The small company that can't get the customer will not grow up. Over time, the bigger the big, the smaller the small, the smaller, "Facing the cruel market competition situation, Shen Meng is very confident," First, we The technology is very hard, and the confidence in customers is established in constant development. If they use very popular technology, then unusual development is the foundation, and this foundation will continue to improve their competition. Strength, in turn, providing customers with better technology, products, and services, such a gradual weakening reverse spiral effect will be converted into constant powerful forward spiral effects, so unuspetent current needs is the first trust of customers. ", Recently have some palm developers in considering the use of unusic DataWare development value-added applications. At the same time, the Unaptian company is also in contact with domestic management software developers, promoting domestic DataWare technology, because most of the most management software in China is based on Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft database, but recently Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft Successfully launched its own management software, directly with the original domestic partners, so that domestic developers will be in a very embarrassing situation, competitors are the coaches for many years, their charter coaches one clear, and the coach What cards have nothing to do in my heart. Therefore, this brings a very good opportunity to unuspected DataWare Server. If domestic management software can turn to DataWare Server, then unuspective and domestic developers will form a "win-win" situation, extreme Dividend has developed, domestic developers can have their own technical foundation and is still very cheap! The current key is which developer will first have to stand up to stand up, no longer subject to the four weeks of the United States.

What is the magic of DataWare, which is a very fantasy core competitiveness? Through a test report in the inside, I saw that in the Windows Platform stand-alone test, the test data of DataWare Pro 1.0 far exceeds Microsoft Access 2000, because there is no DBMS for a single user in the Linux platform, so There is no DataWare Pro to test data in Linux, but according to unuspeary technicians, due to DataWare use ANSI C / C standards, there is no special syntax or special code (such as some dedicated functions of Visual C , etc.), so DataWare It is faster than working on the Windows platform. In the test of DataWare Server, although there is no foreign big DBMS under the function, it can be seen that DataWare Server 1.0 can be more than the old will be SQL Server, MySQL, which is the old will be more than the ventrois, but far leading MSQL. Such a small small DBMS. As Shen Meng said, the goal of the unrealistic is Oracle. Although it is currently unable to stand together with Oracle, our debut is far better than it, after all, DataWare 1st, more than Oracle 1st, Windows 1 version is much perfect, more stable! Although the magical current scale is still small, Oracle, Microsoft is not a born giant, and we are confident that they stand together in the future. Trek

At the end of the interview, my thoughts are also immersive in the unusual contacts, compare Oracle and Unreal, they are not at a level, but I also find so many similarities from them: DBMS is developing Start; all have a temporary business development plan; it is full of vitality, not afraid of hardships; there is a captain full of unlimited passion and self-confidence; believe that his future must be successful ... Of course, it is very unutealed. Nowadays, it is far from Oracle. After all, Oracle is a female place in front of Oracle. It is a Dark Reef, Shaohe and Shark, which can only struggle with the Sky waves. In order to turn your own small palette as an invincible fleet! Let us bless unusual young people, I wish them to take wind and savings, smooth sails to arrive at their top shores!