But the most important battleground may be a different one entirely: the platform for the next generation of enterprise software.

但最重要的战场可能会是另一个完全不同的领域：企业软件的下一代应用平台。

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Service Oriented Architecture has become one of mainstream practices in enterprise software development.

面向服务架构已经成为企业软件开发的主流实践之一。

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Designers and builders of enterprise systems, the software engineers, are familiar with static frameworks, but not with dynamic frameworks.

企业系统的设计者和构建者——软件工程师——熟悉静态框架，但是对动态框架却很陌生。

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There has traditionally been no easy way to turn the jumble of enterprise software and hardware into a coherent orchestra, because all of the sheet music is written in different languages.

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Oracle has been a major player in the traditional on-premise enterprise software market, but with the rise of cloud computing, most major enterprise software makers have been launching cloud based versions of their offerings.

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Compared with those three goliaths, which provide database software to 86% of the enterprise software market, according to Forrester Research, MySQL offers a simpler and cheaper solution.

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