Re: Market share, integration with other products

sms@cocamrd.mel.cocam.oz.au (Steve Szalla) writes: >In article <C70oD4.vrM@hawnews.watson.ibm.com> alanb@vnet.ibm.com writes: >>I have seen articles where Informix claims that it has a larger market share on >>UNIX platforms that Oracle, Sybase, and Ingres. But then Oracle claims >It depends how you measure market share. If you mean number of licences shipped >then the answer is yes. However if you measure it by revenues, the answer is no. >This was true at least in 1991 according to the following data attributed to >IDC: > Worldwide UNIX RDBMS software licence shipments, 1991 > ----------------------------------------------------- > Informix 37% > Oracle 17.5% > Unify 14.7% > Progress 7% > Ingres 5% > Sybase 4% > Interbase 2% > Empress 1% > Others 11.8% > (From Informix advertisement in Database Programming & Design) The above numbers include Informix's shipments of SE and On-Line, which accounts for the large discrepancy between Oracle and Informix. > Worldwide UNIX RDBMS software licencing revenues, 1991 > ------------------------------------------------------ > Oracle 47.6% > Informix 15.7% > Sybase 10.7% > Ingres 10.1% > Progress 3.7% > Unify 3.2% > Interbase 1.3% > Empress 1.2% > Others 6.4% > (From Computerworld Australia) ...deleted... >>Alan Beal >>IBM Federal Systems Company >>Owego, NY >>(607) 751-2026 alanb@vnet.ibm.com >That's ok. >Steve >-- > /~~` /~~\\ /~~` /| /| /| Stephen Szalla sms@mel.cocam.oz.au >| | |_| /_| / | / | Co-Cam Computer Group Tel: +61 3 286 3456 > \\__, \\__/ \\_ / |/ |/ | Melbourne, Australia Fax: +61 3 417 7857