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Database supplier Oracle

Oracle Bone Inscriptions Corporation is the world's largest provider of information management software and services, founded in 1977, and headquartered in Shore, redwood, California, USA. In fiscal year 2000 (1June 1999 to May 2000), the turnover reached10/0/0/000, a record high in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which was1300 million more than last year, and the profit increased by 6 1%, reaching 2/kloc-0. Oracle Bone Inscriptions has more than 36,000 employees, serving 65,438+045 countries around the world. Oracle has the only fully integrated e-commerce suite Oracle Applications R11I in the world, which can realize the automation of all aspects of enterprise management and is favored by users, making the sales of Oracle application software reach 447 million dollars in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2000. Compared with SAP's application software sales of $352 million in the same period, it is nearly $654.38+0 billion more. This fact shows that Oracle Bone Inscriptions is already the largest application software supplier in the world. Oracle e-business suite covers all aspects of enterprise management. Although facing different competitors in different aspects, the core advantage of Oracle e-commerce solution lies in its integration and integrity. Users can completely obtain any required application function from Oracle Company. More importantly, they have a consistent application architecture based on Internet technology. If users want to get the complete functions provided by Oracle e-commerce from other vendors, they need not only to buy different applications from multiple vendors, but also to ask other consulting companies to assemble these different applications, and they must also ensure that they can work together.

Advanced products and efficient enterprise operation are the important reasons for the sustained growth of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's profits. A year ago, Oracle Bone Inscriptions decided to save $654.38 billion in daily operating expenses by adopting its own Internet e-commerce solution, which is equivalent to an increase of 654.38+00% in our annual profit margin.

Four years ago, when e-commerce was still in its infancy in the world, Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company made a strategic plan to transform from a leading database vendor to a complete e-commerce solution provider based on Internet computing. This forward-looking strategy has brought great benefits to Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Today, Oracle can provide advanced, complete and integrated e-commerce solutions including platform products, application products and perfect services ahead of its competitors, and can seamlessly integrate supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource management (ERP), customer asset management (CRM), enterprise business intelligence (BI) and e-commerce application IP(Internet Pocurement), exchange and portal. All Oracle solutions from low-end to high-end 100% are based on Internet application architecture and can be accessed directly through the Web, enabling enterprises to complete all links of enterprise business processes including quotation, order, payment, execution and service through the Web, helping enterprises to quickly transfer existing business content to e-commerce and quickly obtain high profits from e-commerce.

Oracle applications include 150 modules, such as finance, supply chain, manufacturing, project management, human resources, marketing and sales. It has won many world awards and has been adopted by nearly 7600 enterprises around the world. Due to its outstanding performance in e-commerce, Oracle Bone Inscriptions jumped from 122 last year to 13 in the latest authoritative global enterprise 1000 released by American Morgan Stanley Company, becoming the second largest independent software company and the largest e-commerce solution provider in the world. At present, 93% of the top ten Internet e-commerce websites in the world, such as Amazon and Dell, and nine of the top ten B-to-B websites in the world are listed. Com and 65 Fortune Global 100 companies have adopted Oracle e-commerce solutions.

Company Type Listed Company (NASDAQ: ORCL)

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the slogan of information companies.

Founded in California (1977) [1]

Headquartered in redwood Beach, California, USA.

Important person Lawrence Ellison Lawrence J Ellison, CEO

Industrial database software

The number of employees exceeds 35,000.

Chronology of Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company

In 1970s, a software company named Ampex designed a database named Oracle for the CIA. Ellison is one of programmers.

From 65438 to 0977, Alison and her boss Robert Miner set up the "Software Development Lab". At that time, IBM published a paper on "Linked Database", and Allison created a new database named Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

1978, the company moved to Silicon Valley and changed its name to "Relational Software Company" (RSI). Two years later, * * * has eight employees, and the annual income is less than1000000 USD. IBM, which first proposed "linked database", adopted RSI database. It was renamed Oracle Bone Inscriptions on 1982.

During the three years from 65438 to 0984, it successively entered Canada, Netherlands, Britain, Austria, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Norway and Spain. When 1986 went public, its annual revenue soared to $55 million. It went public in March of the same year, raising $365,438 +0.5 million.

The revenue from 1987 reached $65,438 +0.3 1 billion, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions became the fourth largest software company in the world one year later. In two years, we will enter Mexico, Pakistan, China, Cyprus, Malaysia and New Zealand. A year later, revenue doubled to $282 million.

From 65438 to 0990, Oracle Bone Inscriptions invaded Chile, Greece, South Korea, Portugal, Turkey, Venezuela, Taiwan Province, Belgium, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica and the Philippines within two years, but Oracle Bone Inscriptions recorded a loss for the first time and its market value plummeted by 80%. Allison arranged for senior managers to participate in the operation for the first time.

1992 Oracle 7, the flagship product, came out, and the company resumed its upward trajectory, with an annual income of165438+79 million USD. Raymond Lane was once regarded as Oracle Bone Inscriptions's successor and was later removed from the post of Chief Operating Officer.

1995, Allison announced that PC was dead, pushed all products to the development of the Internet, and set up a "network computer company" to sell "network computers", which was eventually eliminated.

In 2000, when the branch network came to an end, E-Business Suite was launched to seize the application product market, which constituted a serious conflict of interest with former business partners. During the same period, Microsoft and IBM improved their data technology. Since then, the share of new orders in Oracle Bone Inscriptions has dropped by 6.6% in two years, and the business has regressed 10%.

The hostile takeover of Peoplesoft in 2003 caused a sensation in the industry. News of the dispute between the two companies is endless. In the same year, the US Department of Justice filed a case to prevent Oracle Bone Inscriptions from buying.

Oracle China Co.

1989, Oracle officially entered the China market, becoming the first software giant in the world to enter China, which indicated that the national economic informatization construction just taking off in China received a positive response from Oracle, and the relational database technology pioneered by Oracle began to serve users in China. 1991July, after nearly two years' efforts, Oracle Bone Inscriptions established a wholly-owned company in Beijing in order to better adapt to the rapidly developing business. Today, Oracle China Company has more than 3,500 employees and set up branches in 12 cities across the country.

In order to help China users make full use of the world's most advanced computer software technology and products in time, Oracle China Company has invested a lot of resources in product localization. At present, most of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's products have achieved a comprehensive China culture, and the updating pace of China's products is basically the same as that of the United States. At the same time, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has received cooperation and support from hundreds of domestic computer companies in China. In addition to Oracle Bone Inscriptions global alliance partners such as Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Compaq, Cisco and Intel, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions global system integrators such as PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting Co., Ltd., Andersen Enterprise Consulting Co., Ltd., AXA Consulting, Deloitte Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd. and Capgemini Ernst & Young Consulting (Asia Pacific) Co., Ltd., Oracle Bone Inscriptions has also established a complete partnership system in China. Including 6 value-added distributors, 72 independent software developers and 3 application software partners, they have formed a national market development, system integration, value-added development and technical service system based on Oracle Bone Inscriptions technology products, which has provided strong support for Oracle Bone Inscriptions's business development in China. Hundreds of commercial application software packages developed by them based on Oracle platform have been widely used in domestic government departments, telecommunications, postal services, public security, finance, insurance, energy and electricity, transportation, science and education, petrochemical, aerospace, civil aviation and other industries.

Brief introduction of Oracle Bone Inscriptions company's main products

1.Oracle e-business suite.

Oracle E-Business Suite is the first integrated Internet-based business application suite in the industry, which automates the key business processes of front and back office. Oracle e-commerce suite covers every business field in the enterprise, including marketing, sales, service, contract, order management, product design, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, finance, project management, human resources and professional service automation. In 200 1 year, more than 1 100 enterprises around the world implemented the Oracle e-commerce suite. At present, more than 12000 users around the world are benefiting from the unprecedented benefits brought by the Oracle e-commerce suite.

Since the first appearance of Oracle e-commerce suite, Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company has launched six enhanced e-commerce suites, thus forming a mature and fully functional application suite. Oracle e-business suite gives users unprecedented choice and flexibility in implementing business applications. Its open infrastructure and single data model make users have many choices when deploying application software in the suite, which can be used independently, form business flow, and be deployed as an integrated suite. Oracle e-business suite can be provided to users as traditional software based on CD-ROM or as online service.

2. Oracle10g-a new generation of e-commerce platform

Oracle 10g is the first complete and intelligent next-generation internet infrastructure in the industry. Actually, Oracle 10g e-commerce platform refers to the complete integration of Oracle database 10g, Oracle application server 10g and Oracle development tool suite 10g.

Oracle database 10g is the first internet database with infinite scalability and high availability, which can run commercial software in cluster environment. It has more than 400 leading database functions and achieved new breakthroughs in cluster technology, high availability, business intelligence, security and system management. As a decade-long software technology research and development achievement of Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company, Real Application Clusters can provide nearly unlimited expansion and overall usability, and bring users transparent and high-speed clustering functions.

Oracle application server10g is the lightest, fastest and most extensible application server certified by J2EE. It provides enterprise portal software, wireless support, caching, lightweight J2EE engine, business intelligence, rapid application development, application and business integration, Web service and other application development functions, forming a complete e-commerce application development and deployment environment. Users who use Oracle application server10g can upgrade software instead of hardware, which greatly saves the cost of infrastructure.

Oracle development tool suite 10g is a complete set of integrated development tools, which can quickly develop Internet applications and Web services using Java and XML languages, and support any language, any operating system, any development style, any stage of development life cycle and all the latest Internet standards.

Oracle after 9i requires very high hardware. (Windows version) 9i recommends 5 12M memory and 10g memory.

oracle 1 1g

On July 12, 2007, Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company announced the launch of Oracle database 1 1g in new york, USA, which is the latest version of Oracle database. Oracle Bone Inscriptions said that Oracle Bone Inscriptions 1 1g has more than 400 functions. After150,000 hours of testing, the development workload has reached 36,000 people/month.

Interestingly, according to the release experience of previous versions in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the release frequency of new versions of Oracle Bone Inscriptions database is about 3 years, and so on. Oracle 1 1g should be released at the end of 2007, and it should be released in July. I wonder if it has something to do with SQL Server 2008 code-named Katmai? Because SQL Server 2008, which is still in the testing stage, will be released in February 2008, the comparison between Oracle 10g and SQL Server 2003 in the industry once annoyed Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

XML can sense high temperature.

When XML came out, perhaps no database vendor would pay enough attention to this technology, but today, XML has begun to have a huge impact on data storage. Today, this extensible markup language has always been the preferred format for all kinds of data, especially documents, and the international mainstream database manufacturers have naturally followed suit and launched a new generation of database products that are compatible with the mixed application of traditional relational data and XML data.

XML has an obvious advantage in data storage, that is, it can directly write logical relations with XML files. What functions should a fashionable XML database provide? To sum up, there should be four basic functions: the ability to use, store, query and generate XML.

In Oracle 10g, the most important improvement people talk about is the support for XML schema(XML syntax) transformation, which allows users to realize XML schema transformation by mapping existing data to new schema. You don't have to export all XML data and then re-import. Other things will be done automatically by the database.

In Oracle 1 1g, the performance of XML DB has been greatly improved. XML DB is a component of Oracle database, and customers can store and manipulate XML data in a native way. 1 1g adds support for binary XML data, and now customers can choose XML storage options suitable for their specific applications and performance requirements.

Of course, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is not the only one who is optimistic about XML. In order to attract Oracle users, IBM DB2 9 directly takes XML as the biggest selling point of its new products. Microsoft and Sybase also claim that their products can also realize high-performance XML storage and query, so that existing applications can better coexist with XML.

Grid computing is a bit cold.

The new Oracle 1 1g still uses g(Grid) as the suffix to indicate that it is a database containing the foundation of grid technology. Oracle Bone Inscriptions said that Oracle 1 1g can run on the grid composed of low-cost servers and storage devices more conveniently. However, at present, only IBM DB2 database still supports grid computing technology.

Grid computing regards multiple servers and storage as a large computer, which enables them to dynamically share computer resources on the high-speed network to meet the ever-changing computing needs. In short, multiple servers and storage are coordinated to serve as a host. Grid computing is widely regarded as the future computing mode.

Although Microsoft is also interested in grid computing, it promises to make Windows better adapt to the high data density computing grid. But apart from internal research, Microsoft seems to have been very silent on this topic. As for grid computing in database, Microsoft and Sybase said that grid application still needs to solve some technical problems (such as multi-node performance problems). If grid technology is to become the mainstream of commercial applications, it will take several years to further improve its applications and products.

What is not optimistic is that the survey released by the consulting company Quocirca shows that the actual adoption rate of China power grid is still low, and the overall power grid index ranks ninth among the 15 countries surveyed, which is at the middle and lower reaches level. Oracle Bone Inscriptions said that users in China may not really accept the value of grid. Many domestic enterprises hold a wait-and-see attitude and feel that the application of grid is risky.

1 1g is it safe?

Some insiders have said that Oracle 10g can only be regarded as a transitional version. Because in 2006, NGSS, the next generation security software organization, made a weakness comparison between Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database, and the results showed that Oracle database products had more weaknesses.

According to NGSS researchers, Oracle has 233 defects, while SQL Server has only 59. These defects were reported in SQL Server7, 2000 and 2005 and fixed in Oracle8, 9 and 10g versions. ESG, an analysis organization, also released a survey report, saying that Microsoft beat Oracle Bone Inscriptions in security, and the security myth that Oracle Bone Inscriptions's database is "impeccable" seems to disappear.

In view of the experts who constantly criticized Oracle Bone Inscriptions's security performance, Oracle Bone Inscriptions finally began to fight back fiercely. At the end of 2006, Eric Maurice, the safety manager of Oracle Bone Inscriptions Global Technology Department, said on the company blog that Oracle Bone Inscriptions's technical level in development and safety was in the leading position in the industry. Compared with the security performance of Microsoft database, people with ulterior motives are playing digital games, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions will not let external pressure change its established security strategy.

So far, at least from the data, it can be seen that Oracle's security certification has obtained the ISO standard certification with the highest certification level, while SQL Server has not obtained any security certification. This proves that Oracle Bone Inscriptions's security should not be so blamed.

From Oracle Bone Inscriptions's 1 1g, it can be seen that in terms of security, in addition to the existing data valve and encryption, 1 1g also adds four security functions: secure backup, asymmetric data authorized secure retrieval, monitoring, management and alarm.

Oracle 1 1g database enhances Oracle's transparent data encryption function and extends it beyond volume-level encryption. 1 1g also adds the table space encryption function, which can be used to encrypt the entire table, index and other stored data. Large objects stored in a database can also be encrypted.

It seems that Oracle Bone Inscriptions attaches great importance to the security performance of11g. Flashback trading technology can cancel wrong transactions and any related transactions, and perform parallel backup and recovery functions. In addition, a new consulting software, data recovery consultant, can automatically investigate problems, intelligently determine recovery plans and deal with various fault situations.

Oracle Data Guard component of Oracle 1 1g can be used for reporting, backup, testing and "rolling" upgrade of production database. By offloading the workload from the production system to the standby system, a more economical disaster recovery solution is formed.

Perhaps it is the enhancement of security that makes Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of database server technology of Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company, confidently say, "Oracle 1 1g has really overcome the challenge and achieved real innovation.

ORACLE function

* * * SQL and multithreaded server architecture were introduced from Oracle 7.x, which reduced the resource occupation of Oracle and enhanced its ability to support more users with less resources on low-end software and hardware platforms, while it could support hundreds of users on high-end platforms.

* Provide safety management based on role division. It has good performance in database management function, integrity check, security and consistency.

* Support a large number of multimedia data, such as binary graphics, sound, animation and multidimensional data structures.

The * PRO* series interface software of the third generation high-level language is provided, which can embed SQL statements and procedural (PL/SQL) statements in mainstream languages such as C and c++ to manipulate the data in the database. In addition, it also has many excellent foreground development tools, such as POWER BUILD, SQL*FORMS, VISIA BASIC and so on. , can quickly develop and generate applications based on client PC platform, and has good portability.

* New distributed database functions are provided. The data in the remote database can be read and written easily through the network, and it has symmetric replication technology.

Oracle is probably the most popular server with the largest market share. It is widely used in various market fields to meet a series of storage needs, such as financial records, human resources and order preparation. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is that Oracle entered the field of RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) earlier and provided a database version that can run on most operating systems. Although Orkle's preferred operating system seems to be shifting from Solaris to Linux, Oracle is still trying to be compatible with other operating systems. Although Oracle often runs on Unix or Linux platforms, there are also a large number of Oracle running on HP -UX and AIX. With the surge of e-commerce a few years ago, it will promote Oracle to become the first choice database for WEB applications, which makes the database more easily controlled by attackers. In fact, once Oracle enters the front end from the background, people will pay more attention to its security.