The rise of MySQL, Oracle, and other pressures

The business weekly published in February 6 pointed out that with the improvement of open-source technology, enterprise users now have begun to choose such cheap and flexible software products. Therefore, in the database software market, traditional experts such as Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft feel unprecedented pressure. Rick Herman is the president of Sony's online entertainment department. He manages the company's online games.

The business weekly published in February 6 pointed out that with the improvement of open-source technology, enterprise users now have begun to choose such cheap and flexible software products. Therefore, in the database software market, traditional experts such as Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft feel unprecedented pressure. Rick Herman is the president of Sony's online entertainment department. He manages the company's online games.

The business weekly published in February 6 pointed out that with the improvement of open-source technology, enterprise users now have begun to choose such cheap and flexible software products. Therefore, in the database software market, traditional experts such as Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft feel unprecedented pressure.

Rick Herman is the president of Sony's online entertainment department. He manages all the data in the company's online gaming department and naturally needs to use database software. According to past management, he will choose Oracle, IBM, or Microsoft database software, but today's Herman is looking at open resources. It is estimated that Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft account for 85% of the database market, with a total value of $15 billion. However, the reason for the trend of Herman's commitment to open source databases is also very simple: cheaper prices, and more flexible features.

In fact, Sony has always been very conservative in Japan during the implementation of open resources. However, with the development of the Linux open resources technology, more and more servers are using Linux software, this brings open resources into the enterprise network market. As a result, more and more enterprise users are turning to the open resource database field.

According to statistics, database software accounts for a large part of the company's software spending. By applying open resources, users can save up to 90% of their spending on databases! "If you told me before year 45 that you could purchase a database at such a low price, I would think you are crazy, But now open resources make it all possible ." Analysts say so.

Today's database software market has formed two camps: one is a private Software Camp represented by three companies: Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft, and the other is an open resource camp formed by countless code writers. There is no doubt that Oracle is still the leader in the database software market today. The dominant business of the company was established in the 1980s S and earlier in the 1990s S, all the emerging new database companies once hoped to shake Oracle's position, but eventually failed. Therefore, it is no easy task to shake the overlord of oracle. According to statistics, Oracle's database software market share is as high as 47%. However, Oracle's current growth momentum has slowed down, which directly led to a huge investment in the company's $19 billion application field. However, the database field remains the lifeline of oracle.

In the open source database camp, MySQL in Sweden played a crucial role. In fact, the software was born more than a decade ago. However, it is still a matter of recent years that has truly taken the mainstream into view. According to statistics, the software has downloaded more than 0.1 billion copies, and has been updated to version 5.0. The latest version of the software was released in last October, and now has downloaded more than 4 million. However, this does not mean that MySQL is truly popular. In fact, only one of every one thousand download users installs the database, and even fewer users buy services and technical support. Therefore, the annual sales of MySQL software is less than $40 million. However, with the popularity of MySQL, the annual revenue growth of software has reached 100%.

The rise of MySQL caused Oracle to be surprised, so the database software giant also released completely free database software not long ago. However, unlike MySQL, Oracle did not release the source code of the software. In the face of the huge scale of Oracle, MySQL is very clever, and said: "unlike Oracle's high-end professional routes, MySQL software is not powerful, however, MySQL is like Swedish furniture in the database Field 'yijia ': cheap and flexible." MySQL targets very clearly small business companies and branches of large business companies. In terms of operating methods, MySQL is relatively backward. After downloading and using MySQL, you need to contact MySQL to purchase services and technical support.

Analysts said that the vast majority of Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft database software users do not fully utilize the features of their products, so there is a waste. By using open resources, this waste can be reduced. The flexibility of open resources also means that users can add new features at any time. However, Oracle does not seem to agree with this view. The vice president of the company's technology market department said: "users who want to buy fixed products from a fixed company will feel a headache for users if they are overly regionalized ."

In addition, with the popularity of Linux open-source operating systems in the server field, old database software companies such as IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft are also under increasing pressure, they must enable software to support open-source operating systems as soon as possible. There is no doubt that the open-source database headed by MySQL is even better in this regard.