Oracle Grows Hong Kong and Asia Pacific Relational Database Management Systems Market Shares
Leads RDBMS Market with 41 Percent in Hong Kong and 53 Percent in APAC
HONG KONG, November 16, 2007 - Oracle has been named by IDC as the leading Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) vendor in Hong Kong and Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ), based on first half 2007 Asia Pacific software revenues (1).
In IDC's "Asia/Pacific Semi-Annual Software Tracker, September 2007" report, Oracle is the Asia Pacific market leader with 53 percent market share, growing 19 percent year-over-year to reach US$373 million in software revenue in first half 2007. It has strengthened its market share lead by nearly four percent over its second half 2006 figure of 50 percent. The company commands more than double the market share of its nearest competitor in the RDBMS market who has 21 percent. In Hong Kong, Oracle leads the RDBMS market with 41 percent share.
"Oracle has, through a sustained flow of innovation, continued to develop and strengthen its undisputed relational database market share leadership in Asia Pacific," said Paul Lee, senior director, Database Sales Consulting, Oracle Greater China. "With Oracle Database 11g, we expect to continue revolutionizing the database world. Customers will benefit from unique features such as active standbys, real application testing and compression of all data types which will have a dramatic impact on the performance, reliability and economics of their IT systems."
Continued Leadership in Database Innovation with Launch of Oracle Database 11g
In Q1FY08, Oracle launched Oracle Database 11g - with new innovative features such as Oracle Active Data Guard, Oracle Real Application Testing and Oracle Advanced Compression. With more than 400 new features, 36,000 person-months of development, and 15 million test hours, Oracle Database 11g is making the management of enterprise information easier than ever, enabling customers to know more about their business and innovate more quickly.
Oracle also recently announced a new world record price/performance result with the TPC-C benchmark running Oracle® Database 11g on Windows (2). Achieving 102,454 transactions per minute with a price/performance of $.73/tpmC, Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One delivered 24 percent more performance at 13 percent less cost than its nearest competitor in the price/performance category (3).
Oracle Database new wins for Q1FY08 in Hong Kong include Bank of East Asia, Dah Sing Bank and for Asia Pacific, excluding Japan include: Alcatel (Australia), Alibaba Group (China), Amna Investment (Sri Lanka), AU Optronics Corp (Taiwan), Changsha Military and Technology University (China), Commercial Taxes Department, Government of Rajasthan (India), Department of Immigration and Emigration (Sri Lanka), Glow Company (Thailand), GreatWall Information Industry (China), Hoya Lens (Thailand), Hunan Province Health Department (China), Hunan Statistics Bureau (China), Iksan City Hall (Korea), JiYuan Land & Resource Bureau (China), Kodeco Energy (Indonesia), Korea Exchange, Lianyuan Iron & Steel Group (China), Liaoning Province Mining Rights Trading Center (China), PT BNI Multifinance (Indonesia), PT Patra Nusa Data (Indonesia), PT Bank Central Asia (Indonesia), Shenzhen Airlines (China), SK Telecom (Korea), Sunghwa College (Korea), Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (India), Tata Steel (Thailand), Tata Tele Services Ltd (India), Xiangya Hospital of Center-South University (China) and Yan Wal Yun (Thailand).
For more information on Oracle Database 11g, visit: http://www.oracle.com/database.
About Oracle Database 11g
Oracle Database is the only database designed for grid computing. With more than 400 new features, 36,000 person-months of development, and 15 million test hours, Oracle Database 11g is making the management of enterprise information easier than ever, enabling customers to know more about their business and innovate more quickly. Oracle Database 11g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers.
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(1) IDC Asia/ Pacific Semi-Annual Software Tracker, 1H07, September 2007.Asia Pacific excluding Japan. Markets included in this report: Australia, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, India and Korea.
(2) As of October 31, 2007. Source: Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) www.tpc.org
HP ProLiant ML350G5, 102,454 tpmC, $.73/tpmC, Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One running on Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard x64 Edition SP1R2, available 12/31/07.
(3) HP ProLiant ML350GB, 82,774 tpmC, .84/tpmC, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 x64 Enterprise Edition SP1 running Microsoft Windows 2003 x64 Standard Edition, available 3/27/07.
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