Oracle today announced that it has been named the leading Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) vendor in India and Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ)¹, based on first half 2007 Asia Pacific software revenues by IDC.

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$373million 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 India, Oracle leads the RDBMS market with 63 percent market share.  This is nearly thrice that of its nearest competitor who only has 23 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 SPS Grover, vice president, Technology Sales, Oracle India. “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.  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.

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