ORACLE: 11 GB free version of China smart plan

Oracle released its new database version 11 GB in the United States on Wednesday. On the morning of June 23, July 12, Oracle held a telephone meeting to answer questions about the 11g media in Asia Pacific.

Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of database server technology at Oracle, said: "users are facing the challenges of increasing data, increasing data integration, and achieving data connection.
The pressure for sustained growth is unprecedented. 10 Gb databases are the first databases designed for grid computing, and more than half of Oracle customers have migrated to 10 Gb. The customer asked us to provide some key
Feature, 11 GB truly overcomes the challenges and achieves true innovation ."

It is reported that the new features of the 11g mainly focus on change management, storage, disaster recovery, security and control. With the new version of software, you can quickly return to the previous status of the database and track all changes in the database system. Oracle said that of all its products, the 11g is the most innovative and quality software.

After the release of 11g, the customer's immediate replacement problem has become the focus of the industry. According to a survey, 36% of customers surveyed are considering upgrading to 11g within one year, the top management of Oracle is also pleased with this figure.

In an interview with Chinese media, Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Oracle, said some of the more than 400 new features of 11g were developed by Chinese developers. Oracle has two R & D centers in Beijing and Shenzhen, and will continue to expand the R & D teams in China in the future.

Andrew Mendelsohn also said that the release of a simple free version is considered for different customer needs and will be officially launched soon. In the outside world, the free version is also a soft response from Oracle to "cheap" databases such as MySQL and SQL Server.

In addition, on the day of release, Oracle once again showed the open-source software, and elaborated on the application of the product on the Linux platform. "Linux is even more popular in Asia and other regions around the world. We also have
A trend is to use a low-cost system, such as using Linux to achieve this goal ." Said Andrew Mendelsohn.