From a global perspective, China's consumer market is very large and has potential. Therefore, many companies in the world also want to make arrangements in the Chinese market, but not all companies can go smoothly in the Chinese market.
In the Internet era, all aspects of people's lives may have a certain relationship with the Internet. In addition, China has a huge population base, so people who use the Internet are also of considerable scale. A large amount of data will be generated during the operation of the Internet, especially when some traffic peaks occur, data transmission will face corresponding pressure.
However, for today's Chinese consumers, the use of the Internet is very convenient and smooth. Even if there are traffic peaks such as Double Eleven and Spring Festival ticket grabbing, people can use the Internet normally. The reason why Chinese consumers find it difficult to feel the server crash and data lag is mainly due to China's mastery of the capabilities of high-performance computing , especially in database management, which has strong strength.
However, the process of China's database being able to have the current strength is also relatively difficult. It may be difficult for people to imagine that the database in the Chinese market was once monopolized by foreign companies.
In the late 1980s, the database company Oracle from the United States entered the Chinese market and used the relational database it created to provide services to Chinese users and had a considerable group. Although the Chinese Internet gradually rose and databases also had higher standards, the databases mastered by Oracle are also constantly moving forward and always ranks at the forefront.
As the Chinese Internet user base continues to expand, Oracle company has gradually realized the vigorous potential of China's Internet consumer market, hoping to get a share of this huge market share. In this regard, Oracle Company has also made corresponding deployments and operations.
In the early 21st century, Oracle Company first set up corresponding offices in Beijing, and then there were Oracle Company offices in cities in Shanghai, Chengdu and Guangzhou. However, at this time, domestic Internet products are still incompetent compared with them, which leads to the fact that the Chinese database market is dominated by Oracle. Even if corresponding competitors emerge in the later stage, Oracle's market position is unshakable.
According to this development trend, as long as Oracle Company operates seriously in the Chinese market, it will also last longer. However, things went against my expectations. Oracle Company became proud and arrogant by its position in the Chinese database market, and even threatened to never train Chinese employees.
It is precisely because of such remarks that Oracle had to withdraw from the Chinese market. In 2019, many of Oracle's offices in the Chinese market were facing large-scale layoffs, and Oracle's own Chinese business also plummeted. After that, Oracle ended its monopoly position in the Chinese database market.
Some people may think that Oracle's monopoly in the Middle Ages has lasted for more than 30 years, and will Oracle's sudden departure have an adverse impact on Chinese Internet users? In fact, such worries are unnecessary. In the past decade, China's Internet has developed in full swing, and countless local database companies have emerged, and first-tier companies have basically independent database products.
For example, Alibaba Cloud , JD Cloud, Huawei Cloud , Tencent Cloud , etc. Among them, Alibaba Cloud established by Alibaba is the world's third largest cloud service manufacturer, providing corresponding data services to 50% of listed companies in China. Therefore, even if the Chinese market does not have the Oracle database, the Chinese database can support the normal operation of Chinese consumers and related companies, and even do better.
It should be noted that although Oracle has ended its monopoly position in the Chinese database market, Oracle data services are almost nowhere to be seen in the current Chinese market. However, from a global perspective, Oracle is still the largest database company at present, and the database choices for many large-scale websites of international technology companies are Oracle. According to relevant financial reports, Oracle achieved revenue of RMB 82.3 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, far exceeding its international competitors.
Of course, it is very difficult for Oracle to get a share of the Chinese market again. First of all, Oracle's service attitude will not be favored by Chinese users. More importantly, China's local database market already has considerable strength and is not worse than Oracle's database in terms of performance. Even without the support of Oracle's database, domestic database can still maintain the operation of various industries such as China's Internet and finance.
Conclusion:
Overall, Oracle, as the world's largest database giant, will be even larger if it is truly rooted in the Chinese market. However, Oracle Company took a wrong step because of its pride and arrogance. As the saying goes, one step is wrong. I don’t know if Oracle has regretted it if it has lost the Chinese market.
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