We have returned safely from the lovely San Francisco, and most of the tensions after the Oracle openworld Conference have vanished. Now we have to make a conclusion. In fact, just as expected, there is a huge difference between the Oracle openworld conference and the salesforce.com dreamforce Conference held two weeks ago.
Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com, successfully moved his business customers to the stage and proved the achievements of using his solution. Almost no one can do this. In addition, the key message of transforming to a "social enterprise" is also consistent throughout the group discussions.
Facts have proved that salesforce.com is first a marketing company, which is its biggest characteristic.
This is not the case with Oracle.
Obviously, Oracle is rooted in technology (which is very proud). Although the large exa-Everything machine was not unveiled this time, however, most of the keynote speeches outside Oracle are scheduled for technical and system integration partners. Many of these in-depth seminars involve extremely professional topics, such: "using policy-managed clusters to simplify node management and explore the network plug-and-play function of cluster technology in Oracle Database Grid infrastructure ".
Let's face the reality: the Oracle openworld Conference mainly targets technicians, developers, chief information officers, and sales personnel. So what should you do if you are a business engineer and are faced with Oracle experts of up to 50 thousand people and what they say makes you confused? From time to time, the major news announced at the meeting caused the audience to applaud and applaud. How do you interpret these news?
Don't worry. We have made a brief "Translation" of the openworld Conference result of Larry Ellison to help you interpret it from a business perspective:
- "We bring infrastructure as a service ".From now on, you can migrate all IT components running in your own data center to our data center. As we optimize the use of high-performance technologies (such as exadata, exalogic, supercluster, InfiniBand, etc.), we can not only increase cost efficiency, but also do better than ourselves. Sooner or later, you can close your data center and migrate everything to the oracle cloud. In this way, you will be completely liberated.
- "Our new private cloud is a natural extension of oracle cloud ."At present, you certainly do not want to close your data center. There are many reasons why you want to keep some IT functions safe (besides, it is interesting to have eye-catching infrastructure, especially Oracle infrastructure ). We can help you arrange all this, as if it has been migrated to the oracle cloud, but in fact it is still on your site. We provide hardware and software. You only need to pay a certain renewal fee every month. In this way, you can start to reap the advantages of cloud computing, such as cost efficiency, flexibility, scalability, and switch from capital expenditure to operational expenditure, while retaining the "private" feeling. If you are ready to migrate to the external public cloud (to be honest, do more), everything will not change, but the cost is likely to change.
- "12C is the world's first multi-tenant database."I have to admit that it sounds a little scary. What it really means is that in the future, more software solutions will be delivered through cloud ("C" in 12C ), many enterprises will lease the same solution (with "Multi-tenant ). Our database has been optimized to ensure that the data of one company will never be entangled with the data of other companies. Your security is our top priority. Therefore, if you want to purchase a new software solution in the near future, you must ask the provider if it has used our 12C database.
- "The New exadata X3 is equipped with 26 tb dram and smart flash memory. It only requires one rack to create an all-around Memory Database System ."In fact, we provide a faster and more powerful database, but the cost remains unchanged. No one is fond of cost-effective things, right?
- "We have the largest application portfolio, all based on Java and integrated middleware ."You can say that. We did develop and obtain the world's most comprehensive application catalog. If all these applications run on the same technical platform (Oracle Platform), you no longer need to integrate and associate them yourself. You can save a lot of time and money, concentrate on solving business problems, without the need to combine various technologies. However, this goal is still being achieved: not all of our solutions have been fully run on the same platform. The good news is that we may not plan to buy more solutions in the near future.
