ORACLE ERP detailed description of why only ORACLE ERP eventually emerge, such as bimodal par with SAP stand like a wall? Is a historical necessity, or chance? Perhaps from the recall history of the development of ORACLE ERP give us some useful inspiration.
A great company must have a great product. If the database is ORACLE which the last two decades of the last century, and started to lay status to its flagship product, enterprise applications (or ERP) Is undoubtedly ORACLE This is the beginning of this century nearly a decade to war battlefield, the core of invincible weapons. ORACLE database on the legendary story, and I believe that the majority of programmers, or IT technical staff is already the familiar gains a heart, but ORACLE's ERP products, origin and history, many people seem not to mention ORACLE even with their own ERP products for its own historical origins are unclear what some secretive. 2007 India had a SAP consultants on the Internet with ORACLE's when the fans are arguing once said: "Ten years ago where some people have heard of Oracle any ERP product, that is, if you ask to do three years ago, ERP, and we only know that SAP R / 3 , Oracle is the database. "
Objectively speaking, this man said is not entirely swayed by personal feelings, because more than 10 years ago, when people you used to call it MRP II the ORACLE ERP does have some unknown (at least this is the case in the country), so that August 15, 2000, Lenovo Group is proud to announce officially: from Lenovo, SAP and Deloitte cooperation in the success of Lenovo Group's ERP project implementation. Media cheer: Lenovo Group's ERP project's success, not only the creation of India's IT industry in the ERP project, the "first", also created a new Legend (Legends ". May be the actual situation is that back in 1996 for Love of the ORACLE R10.6 has begun full-service applications (13 core business modules, only the HR module strategically chose SAP). to the legitimate media, and in 2000 the industry from top to bottom are hot Yee Liu's famous "on the ERP is seeking death, not the ERP is waiting to die "when they are quiet TATA to deploy an upgrade from the ORACLE R10.7 to R11.
Needless to say, back 10 years, adding that SAP was the industry today and described as "a Mercedes-Benz, a BMW" in ORACLE ERP, at the time, compared with SAP, indeed can only be considered an "ugly duckling" to As regards the former SAP TATA projects (because of more expensive), after losing to ORACLE, but some "disdain" and expressed "regret." TATA year, compared with Lenovo's just not played the role of the eye, SAP's "regrettable" is also not completely true that pretending to be easy, also is a point of "wait and see good-looking" means. Only a decade later in 2006, when the IT industry is already prominent, budding TATA to "heavily" courtesy to send SAP exit, the HR modules to switch to ORACLE time, SAP's sales staff in addition accusing "senior" a foolish on the matter how "easy" not up.
Over the past 10 years, those who glory in the ERP industry, has impressive performance of enterprises, such as JD Edwards, Baan, Peoplesoft, Siebel, i2, etc., have fallen one by one, or disappear, as the meteors. After the accession of the heavyweight players such as Microsoft, ten years hard ERP, is harvested little. Why are the ORACLE ERP eventually emerge, such as bimodal par with SAP stand like a wall? Is a historical necessity, or chance? Perhaps from the recall history of the development of ORACLE ERP give us some useful inspiration.
1, 1993 years ago: indifferent spectator
Talked about the history of ERP can not help but mentioned SAP, Because in the last decade of the last century, the industry is almost universally recognized SAP is ERP Software the originator, SAP's R / 3 is almost synonymous with ERP. And talked about the history of SAP (also, as mentioned Microsoft, Oracle's history), we can not fail to mention a well-known name "IBM". IBM, the world's largest of the three "independent software vendor ISV" (No. 1 Microsoft, the second Oracle, third-SAP) of the relationship could be said to be "a long history." Not only that, today's so-called "independent software vendor ISV" The reason to have a foothold and grow, but also with 40 years ago, IBM has much of a paper statement.
More than 40 years ago in the sixties of last century, is dominated by IBM mainframe computers of the era, when the so-called application software markets, such as enterprise financial management software, just walk in the beginning stages. Although the IBM mainframe computers will be sold "bundled" This kind of software, but usually develop application software is also focused on customer own work. IBM did not present a separate charge for the buyer to the computer software costs, bundled software is simply to promote the entire computer system. This allows those who wish to rely on IBM for the enterprise to prepare large-scale computer software, small companies struggling to survive, so a few small companies together to bring the U.S. Justice Department was prepared to "anti-trust" actions. The face of pressure from the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as internal software development costs increasing, IBM on June 23, 1969 has finally made a decisive statement: will stop sending free random software, hardware and software, respectively starting price. On this day might be termed the "birthday of the world's software industry," Since then, one by one the software giant's future will be born, grow, and began to dominate our world. |
