Oracle Posts Fastest Growth among Middleware Server Vendors in China
Service-Oriented Architecture Adoption and Partner Enhancement are Growth Drivers
ORACLE OPENWORLD ASIA PACIFIC, SHANGHAI, China, August 1, 2007 - Oracle announced today that it continues to outpace and take market share from its middleware competitors in China. According to IDC, Oracle grew 53% in China's dedicated application server software market in 2006, faster than its two nearest competitors and gaining more than two points of market share1.
Vice President of Technology Sales for Oracle Greater China Stanley Chew said, "Oracle Fusion Middleware is growing rapidly in China. More customers in China are choosing Oracle Application Server over the competition and benefiting from its unmatched scalability, availability, manageability and security."
Oracle Application Server, a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the industry's most comprehensive solution for developing, integrating, and deploying an enterprise's applications, portals, and Web services. Based on a powerful and scalable J2EE server, Oracle Application Server is the only platform designed for grid computing as well as full lifecycle support for a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Oracle Application Server 10g, a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database 10g, set a record-breaking result in the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark by delivering the highest performance per core across all platforms and application servers2. Surpassing the best per core performance of IBM WebSphere3 and BEA WebLogic4, these results continue Oracle's excellence in setting world records in Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server benchmarks.
Oracle Fusion Middleware helps businesses in China run, secure, adapt, and expand their business. Public and private organizations in China that chose Oracle Fusion Middleware in its fiscal year 2007, ended May 31, 2007, include: Guangdong Mobile and Guangdong Telecom in the communications industry; Zhejiang Power in the utility sector; Weichai Power in the manufacturing industry; Shanghai Lotus Supermarket in the retail sector; Beijing Public Security Traffic Management Bureau, Hebei Health Bureau, Jiangsu Waterway Bureau, Shanghai Education Bureau, Shanghai Food and Drug Authority, Shanghai Medical Bureau, Shanghai Yangpu Central Community and Zhejiang Environment Bureau in the government sector; Shanghai Research Center for Biology Information Technology in the education sector; PICC Life and Shanghai Stock Exchange in the financial services industry.
As a leading middleware vendor in China, Oracle's ongoing commitment to meet the growing demands of public and private organizations, customers, partners and developers include:
- Increasing focus on growth drivers such as SOA in key industries, including communications, government, education, healthcare, manufacturing and logistics.
- Customers which have adopted Oracle's SOA solutions include Guangdong Mobile, Shanghai Education Bureau, Shanghai Research Center for Biology Information Technology, SinoTrans and Zhejiang Power;
- Comprehensive offering of Identity Management, Enterprise Content Management and Businesss Intelligence solutions for the Chinese market;
- Expanding presence in Chinese growth cities such as provincial capitals;
- Enhancing the company's partner network with value-added distributors such as Digital China and Neusoft, and enhanced cooperation with implementation partners such as BearingPoint, Deloitte, Softvan and Wipro for faster and smoother deployments for customers;
- Helping Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) with migration. A total of 78 Chinese ISVs have standardized on the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform with the help of Oracle's Partner Solutions Center in Shenzhen, China.
About Oracle Fusion Middleware
The company's comprehensive, standards-based family of middleware software, Oracle Fusion Middleware enables customers to adopt and manage SOAs in heterogeneous computing environments. More than 35,000 customers now use Oracle Fusion Middleware and include leading organizations in the financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, pharmaceuticals, health care and public sector industries. Oracle Fusion Middleware is also supported by 9,000 partners, including leading independent software vendors, value added resellers and system integrators.
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1. IDC Asia/Pacific Semiannual Application Deployment Software Tracker, version H2 2006 – Dedicated Application Server Software Market Component.
2. Oracle Application Server on single-node HP Integrity rx2660 with 2 Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 1.6 GHz processors (4 cores, 2 chips, 2 cores/chip), 874.17 JOPS@Standard (218.54 JOPs per core).
3. IBM WebSphere Application Server V.1 on IBM System p5 505, (2 cores, 1 chip) 404.88 JOPS@Standard (202.44 JOPs per core).
4. BEA WebLogic Application Server 9.2 on Insupr NF380D Systems, (8 cores/4 chips), 1466.29, JOPS@Standard (183.28 JOPS per core). Back to Press Release Content |
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