2012's Enterprise Shifts, Beyond Apple and Google


ORACLE: The late cloud entrant and the reigning king of software

The year 2012 started badly for Oracle, as experts discovered an unknown bug in Oracle’s database. But when it comes to the software market, the company has been quite on a roll. The Q2 results released this week states that the company has a surge of 17 percent in software market. It means $2.4 billion in the quarter. Applications, middleware, and database all had double-digit growth in new software license and cloud subscriptions- the list is endless.

This year we also saw Oracle trying new experiments in NoSQL and big data technologies. Although the company had a slow start, maybe by a year or two, experts predicts that Oracle has a bright future in these businesses.

At the OpenWorld show case, Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison announced “support for multitenancy as a critical feature, providing superior security, control, and efficiency for software services delivered from the cloud. ... It is the first multitenant database in the world." This clearly reveals their intentions over the database platform.

Then there is the cloud computing. This year Oracle surprised everyone with the announcement of their cloud strategy, which for years was booed by Larry Ellison and company. At the OpenWorld show, Ellison announced seven new sectors which the company will cover in coming years. At the show, the company also boasted about its latest PaaS and cloud based offerings; "it's the broadest suite of software products available from any vendor through a cloud," said Ellison.

These moves certainly sights on Oracle’s better intentions to embrace the modern technology, which certainly is an exciting approach. Oracle also can be congratulated for moving Java forward, with its ambitious plans for Java including modular capabilities and cloud computing.

 

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