甲骨文的股票 Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL) surged more than 11% to a new 52-week high on Wednesday backed by strong first quarter earnings and underscoring the strength of the company’s decision to grow by acquisition.甲骨文公司（ NASDAQ ： ORCL ）等大幅上升11 ％以上到一個新的52週新高對週三後盾，強大的第一季度財報，並強調實力，該公司的決定，以增加收購。

Oracle spent about $20 billion to buy PeopleSoft in 2005 and Siebel Systems this year, solidifying its place in the market for corporate applications.甲骨文花了約200億美元購買仁科在2005年和Siebel Systems今年，鞏固其在市場上為企業應用。 via Forbes.透過福布斯。

Oracle is interesting to me for several reasons.甲骨文有趣的是，我有幾個原因。

Oracle is not only competing with lower cost products like Microsoft SQL Server, which has grown amazingly in the recent years from its Sybase codebase, but also with quality free products like MySQL or PostgreSQL.甲骨文不僅是競爭與成本較低的產品，如Microsoft SQL Server的，這增加了令人驚訝的，在近年來從Sybase的代碼，而且還與質量的免費產品一樣， MySQL或PostgreSQL 。 It shows how a product company can succeed even in the face of competition from open source free products.它表明，如何在產品的公司才能成功，甚至在面對競爭，開放原始碼的免費產品。

Companies like Oracle also help develop industries around their products thereby further solidifying their position in the market.公司像甲骨文也有利於發展工業靠近他們的產品，從而進一步鞏固其在市場上的地位。 Being an Oracle DBA is a lucrative position, which is relatively easy to get into and easy to earn a lot.作為一個Oracle的名義運作是一個利潤豐厚的立場，這是比較容易進入和容易賺了很多。 Oracle Financial Applications fosters a huge industry of small consulting & implementation companies. Oracle財務應用，促進一項巨大的產業小諮詢和實施公司。 Oracle has been known to actively foster its developer community and help them grow.甲骨文已眾所周知，積極促進其開發者社區，幫助他們成長。 Even though Oracle do provide high end Professional Services, there is lots of room in middle to lower end of the spectrum.即使甲骨文提供的高端專業服務，有很多的空間，在中，低端的頻譜。

Contrast this with open source companies like RedHat or MySQL or JBoss or WordPress.相反，這與開放源代碼公司一樣， Redhat的或MySQL或JBoss的或在WordPress 。 It is hard for them to foster implementation partners as they are themselves trying to float their business through consulting and support!是很難為他們，以促進執行夥伴，因為他們本身就是試圖浮法他們的業務，通過諮詢和支持！ The amount of business that can thrive around them is much less as they have to compete with the parent company, which isn’t easy.數額的業務可以蓬勃發展他們周圍的要少得多，因為他們的競爭與該公司的母公司，這是不容易的。 Understand that this picture isn’t black and white.明白這圖片是不是黑與白。 Bigger ones like MySQL tries to foster some community, while smaller ones like WordPress think they are favoring their community by their venerable presence and don’t care much about them.更大的一樣， MySQL的嘗試，以促進一些社區，而規模較小的一樣，在WordPress認為他們是偏袒他們的社區，由他們老的存在和不關心不多。

Overall the size of the industry reduces drastically and spooks new entrant as they don’t want to compete with zero-cost products, if they can help it.整體大小，該行業的大幅減少和spooks新加入者，因為他們不想競爭，零成本的產品，如果他們能幫助它。

The good news is that slowly companies are realizing that free to purchase doesn’t necessarily translate to free to implement and maintain.好消息是，慢慢地公司正意識到自由購買，不一定翻譯，以免費去執行與維護。 Quality and support of a product counts much more than the upfront price.質量和支持某一產品的罪狀遠不止前期價格。 And so companies like Oracle are rising again in public perception, in profitability and hence in the stock market.等公司一樣，甲骨文也都再次上升，在公眾的看法，在盈利能力，因此在股票市場上。