It's not that the west wind overwhelms the east wind, but that the east wind overwhelms the west wind!

Recently, Malaysian e-commerce giant PrestoMall announced that it would abandon Oracle Bone Inscriptions database and adopt POLARDB cloud database independently developed by Alibaba Cloud.

Why join hands with Alibaba Cloud POLARDB cloud database? Higher efficiency and lower cost!

In fact, as early as 65438+early February last year, PrestoMall had completed the overall migration of database to POLARDB in Alibaba Cloud. After the migration, the overall business of PrestoMall runs smoothly, and the IT cost is reduced by more than 40%.

Compared with Ali's POLARDB cloud database, the traditional database provided by Oracle Bone Inscriptions is too expensive and backward.

As the second largest e-commerce giant in Malaysia, PrestoMall has developed rapidly in recent years. In the past three years, its revenue has increased by more than 250%, and online traffic has increased by spurt. At this time, PrestoMall discovered a sad reality: the old Oracle Bone Inscriptions database can no longer support the company's business development. In the long run, due to the backward database management, the company's overall business will open a gap with lazada, the largest e-commerce company.

And why is the IT data of lazada, which has been acquired by Ali, so effective? Lazada's entire business has moved to Alibaba Cloud!

So presto Marr is determined to jump out of the pit of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. After many investigations, he finally chose to cooperate with POLARDB cloud database in Alibaba Cloud.

Because for an e-commerce giant like PrestoMall, the advantages of Ali POLARDB cloud database are very obvious: it adopts the design of separation of storage and calculation and integration of software and hardware, which is born to meet large-scale business scenarios such as e-commerce business: on the day of 20 1 19, POLARDB set a new record of 87 million database processing peaks per second.

At the 10th China Database Technology Conference just past, POLARDB of Alibaba Cloud, which won the World Science and Technology Award, was selected as the "Best Innovative Product of the Year" again, beating Oracle Bone Inscriptions Database.

PrestoMall is a wise choice to abandon Oracle Bone Inscriptions database and switch to Ali POLARDB cloud database.

Nowadays, the development of the times is as fast as lightning, as if just yesterday, Oracle Bone Inscriptions was still invincible!

In 1970s, Larry Ellision, who has been designing Oracle Bone Inscriptions database for the CIA, founded the "Software Development Laboratory". Later, because of that famous database paper, Larry Ellision named the company's database after the Oracle Bone Inscriptions database.

After the company moved to Silicon Valley, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's business grew rapidly, including Ellison's former employer, CIA. Around 1984, Oracle Bone Inscriptions entered more than ten developed countries and regions around the world, and 1986 was listed. In the year of listing, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's annual revenue reached $55 million.

1988, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's revenue exceeded 1 100 million USD, making it the fourth largest software giant in the world. A few years later, founder Larry Ellision became the second richest man in the world after Bill Gates.

In 2000, the basic pattern of the world software field was still that Microsoft, IBM and Oracle Bone Inscriptions were the three pillars. By 20 13, Oracle Bone Inscriptions surpassed IBM in one fell swoop and became the second largest software giant in the world after Microsoft.

At that time, all the Internet giants in the world could not do without Oracle Bone Inscriptions's database, such as Alibaba, which was Oracle Bone Inscriptions's biggest customer in Asia.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions's commercial success has also brought great wealth to Larry Ellision. He spent billions of dollars on yachts and private jets. This guy usually drives a MIG -29 fighter to work. Isn't that cool enough?

On the 20 18 Forbes list of the world's richest people, Larry Ellision ranks seventh in the world with a net worth of US$ 420 billion, and his personal wealth is 1.5 times that of Ma Yun and Ma Hua Teng.

However, in recent years, due to Larry Ellision's short-sightedness about cloud computing, the situation of the global database market began to turn sharply.

When Oracle Bone Inscriptions database dominated the world, Google, Amazon and Alibaba began to explore cloud computing technology.

In the face of the positive transformation of his opponent, Larry Ellision remained indifferent, because Oracle Bone Inscriptions's advantage in the database was too great, as Ma Yun said, "You can't find your opponent with a telescope". Larry Ellision is also full of praise: Cloud computing? I have no idea what these guys are talking about. It's sheer nonsense!

When others are saving money to prepare for the counterattack and determined to replace Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Larry Ellision is still intoxicated with the old dreams of the past and doesn't want to wake up. This is the scariest thing in the world!

It was Larry Ellision's dullness and contempt in cloud computing that gave other friendly forces a chance to stand out, while Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which couldn't keep up with the situation, began to turn from prosperity to decline.

Years later, Amazon AWS became the world's largest cloud computing company. In Asia, Alibaba Cloud, led by Wang Jian, has also developed a "flying system" that can perfectly control 5,000 servers in 2065,438+03, which means that the huge Alibaba Group no longer needs Oracle Bone Inscriptions database.

Around 20 16 years ago, Larry Ellision finally woke up and began to deploy cloud computing, but it was too late: Amazon AWS was dead, and Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud were ruthlessly devouring the market share of Oracle Bone Inscriptions database on a global scale. At the same time, due to the overall transformation of the company's business to cloud computing, Oracle Bone Inscriptions had to lay off a large number of employees around the world in order to concentrate superior resources to upgrade its cloud computing business.

In this process, Oracle Bone Inscriptions was constantly abandoned by important customers, and finally, even Warren Buffett decided to give up.

In the second half of 20 18, Buffett bought Oracle Bone Inscriptions shares worth $2 10 billion, but only a few months after holding his shares, Buffett sold all Oracle Bone Inscriptions shares. Such an operation is very rare for Buffett, which shows that even Buffett has despaired of Oracle Bone Inscriptions: We know that Buffett has a remarkable feature in buying stocks, and he holds them for a long time after buying them, never considering short-term holdings, such as Coca-Cola, Apple and other stocks.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions's experience over the years also shows that this is a fission era, its prosperity is rich, and its death is sudden. In this rapidly changing era, you are either excellent or out!

In the future, big data, cloud computing and AI will become the core engines driving social development. Those companies that dance at the forefront of independent technology: Amazon AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei 5G, Tesla new energy vehicles ... will use their own courage to reshape the world.

At the same time, people who can't see the future will also be seriously abandoned by this era!

Author: E-commerce Jun