Shulou(Shulou.com)06/02 Report--

A few days ago, software giant Oracle announced that all of the company's future work will focus on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) operations, setting off another wave of layoffs. IBM recently announced that it will adjust its workforce structure to accommodate new cloud services and data analytics businesses, and may hire new employees. Why is the difference in personnel handling between the two companies so great?

In 2018, Oracle founder Larry Ellison's answer in an interview seemed to indicate that the company's views would lead to today's failure. "China has been America's biggest threat/competitor since the 1930s," he said. It cannot allow China to produce more engineers than the United States. "

In the face of competition, Oracle did not try to develop and improve itself, but did its best to contain competitors and avoid being overtaken. This mindset and pattern will only lead to waiting for the sky to fall and gradually lose competitive advantage. Downturns leading to layoffs are nothing new.

Executive Vice President Don Johnson also noted before the layoffs that "in the future, all the work the company will be doing for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) business, it's difficult for non-major industries and sectors to escape the fate of being fired for lack of growth momentum. "。OCI has long been expected and has become the hope of Oracle's cloud business transformation. On the OCI side, Oracle introduced the first Oracle autonomous data warehouse, effectively reducing operational workload by 70%, saving more operational costs, and making security and cost-effectiveness a key advantage for competitors. However, for these enterprises, whether it is to create gimmicks or really help Oracle win the market is unknown, but for Oracle, in terms of cloud computing, it really lags far behind cloud computing.

With the transformation and upgrading of industry users bringing new information needs, as well as the improvement of the technical level and service level of domestic software manufacturers, Chinese and foreign manufacturers will launch fierce competition in the customer fields of various vertical industries. In China, Kingdee, UFIDA, Inspur and other software manufacturers have done a good job. For example, Inspur jointly developed and launched the first open source cloud ERP product based on micro-service architecture-PS Cloud with Odoo, an internationally renowned open source ERP manufacturer, in 2018, which has been helping the digital transformation of enterprises. In addition, according to the CCID report, in terms of enterprise application software market share in 2018, Inspur overtook Oracle, jumping from fourth to third. It is unknown whether Oracle's market share in China will decrease in the future.

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