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Published on August 4, 2007

Oracle introduced Oracle Database 11g, the latest release of the world's most popular database.  With more than 400 features, 15 million test hours, and 36,000 person-months of development, Oracle Database 11g is the most innovative and highest quality software product Oracle has ever announced.

"Oracle Database 11g, built on 30 years of design experience, delivers the next generation of enterprise information management," said Natasak Rodjanapiches, Regional Managing Director for Oracle ASEAN and Managing Director for Oracle Thailand.  "More than ever, our customers are facing the challenges of, rapid data growth, increased data integration, and data connectivity IT cost pressures.  Oracle Database 10g pioneered grid computing, and more than half of Oracle customers have moved to that release.  Oracle Database 11g delivers the key features our customers have asked for to accelerate broad adoption and growth of Oracle grids; representing real innovation, that addresses real challenges, as told to us by real customers."

Oracle Database 11g can help organizations take control of their enterprise information, gain better business insight, and quickly and confidently adapt to an increasingly changing competitive environment.  To do this, the new release extends Oracle's unique database clustering, data center automation, and workload management capabilities.  With secure, highly available and scalable grids of low-cost servers and storage, Oracle customers can tackle the most demanding transaction processing, data warehousing, and content management applications.

Oracle is the NO. 1 Database: Gartner 2006 Worldwide RDBMS Market Share Reports 47.1% Share for Oracle. Gartner recently published their market share numbers by operating system for 2006 based on total software revenues. 

According to Gartner, Oracle has 47.1 percent share (up from 46.8 percent in 2005);has revenue growth of 14.9 percent, faster than the market average of 14.2 percent with US$7.2 Billions in revenues; and continues to hold more market share than its two closest competitors combined.