Oracle and IBM have spared no effort in competing for the right to speak in the database market. You have made a move here. In a chess game, it seems that the final outcome is not yet displayed. However, this Oracle response was quite fast.
Oracle announced in Guangzhou in April 22 that its "Oracle Acceleration Plan" officially launched a new Chinese portal website --midsize.oracle.com/cn. According to Deng Jinping, general manager of Oracle Greater China application channel, the Oracle Acceleration Plan will introduce a new portal website and functional software for medium-sized enterprises. He also said the company will promote the application of Oracle Applications in China.
The Chinese website launched by Oracle today is a resource center featuring solutions. Through this website, customers can search for industry-specific business solutions and successful cases of Chinese customers, and easily find Oracle products. In addition, the website also contains the "partner Online exhibition hall" to help customers find matching combinations of Oracle application software and Oracle Acceleration Plan solutions.
The Oracle Acceleration Plan has been released for three years. According to official ORACLE data, Oracle has added thousands of medium-sized customers in application software. Deng Jinping, general manager of Oracle Greater China application channel, believes that in addition to the Oracle Acceleration Plan, Oracle also launched the application distributor program to compete with domestic Chinese companies such as yonyou and Kingdee for medium-sized enterprise users. This plan will help Oracle develop users in second-tier cities.
He did not disclose that Oracle has added medium-sized enterprises in China in the past year, only saying that Oracle's sales growth of new application software in the global market in the last quarter has reached 21%.
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According to Chen wenfeng, new managing director of information management software and business analysis in Greater China of IBM software group, the "anti-cracking action" that will last for a whole year had been quietly launched as early as February this year. The entire action will include encouraging and helping users to port to the DB2 database platform, helping increase user value through an overall solution that increases user TCO, and strengthening strategic cooperation with SAP, further improve the efficiency of DB2 in SAP.