Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 14, 2005 ─ According to the latest report from market research firm IDC, Oracle continues to be the overall leader in the worldwide relational and object-relational database management systems software market.
IDC's report, "Worldwide RDBMS 2004 Vendor Shares: Preliminary Results for the Top 5 Vendors Show a Solid Boost (March 2005, IDC #32969)," estimates that Oracle Database revenues grew 14.5 percent year over year and increased its market share lead to 41.3 percent. Overall, the worldwide market for relational database management systems grew by 11.6 percent in 2004. In 2003, Oracle Database posted 8.6 percent growth year over year and was the market share leader with 39.8 percent.
Major Oracle Database Milestones in 20042004 marked a significant year for Oracle Database. Oracle Database 10g became generally available in January 2004. New, lower pricing was introduced for Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One in February 2004. Simultaneously, Oracle Real Application Clusters was made available as part of Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition, enabling customers to benefit from the availability and scalability benefits of Oracle Real Application Clusters in a low cost product. To round out the year, Release 2 of Oracle Database 10g was announced in December, with general availability scheduled for mid-year 2005.
Mr. Husam Dajani, Vice-President, Oracle, Middle East and Africa, commented on the IDC report by saying: "The IDC report comes as no surprise to us, as we experience this kind of positive growth in our region, more customers are recognizing the superiority of our database and solutions and turning to us for help. We are proud to offer this kind of help and we will continue to do so."
Oracle Database 10g also received numerous awards from industry publications in 2004 recognizing the product's advanced "grid management" capabilities as well as its automated administrative features that simplify configuration and management of complex computing environments and reduce database administrator workload for handling large infrastructures. Additional information about accolades bestowed on Oracle Database 10g is available at:
http://www.oracle.com/database/dbawards_0105.html.
"The numbers clearly indicate that Oracle made impressive gains in 2004 and widened the gap between itself and the nearest competitor," said Ayman Abouseif, Senior Director, Marketing, Oracle, Middle East and Africa. "The growth is attributable to a number of factors including the availability of Oracle Database 10g, the success of Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One, and the overall acceptance and adoption of our grid computing strategy by customers and partners. Oracle is enabling more customers to obtain greater utilization of their IT systems today."
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About Oracle Database 10g
Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything from small blade servers to the biggest SMP servers and clusters of all sizes. It features automated management capabilities for easy, cost-effective operation. Oracle Database 10g's unique ability to manage all data from traditional business information to XML documents and spatial/location information makes it the ideal choice to power online transaction processing, decision support and content management applications.
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