Re: Market Share

Would you put Online and SE in the same catagory? Are they the same caliber. Less than 1/2 of Informix's shipments were of the OnLine server product; the ratio of OnLIne-to- SE shipments for Informix was approximately 40/60 in 1994. You would have to multiply the number of Online Servers shipped in 94 by 1.5 to come up the number of Oracle7 (not RDB) servers shipped. perryd@fourgen.com (Perry Dillard) wrote: >}>>>>>>>>> Perry's response to Tony Basoglu <<<<<<<<<< >This clearly has nothing to do with how many companies use >Oracle vs Sybase vs Informix. All it really proves is that >Oracle is more expensive than the other databases. If you look No it doesn't. SE is basically a cheap, small database with NO Multithreaded Server Parallel Anything Transaction Logging BLOB Support Database Mirroring Distributed Features 24x7 Support Row-level Locking Replication OLAP Special Datatypes Advanced Indexing VLDB Features If you compare the cost of Oracle to SE, then yes Oracle looks more expensive. If on the other hand you compare Oracle to Online and factor in support costs and other license issues guess what - they are pretty comparable. >at license's sold, I believe you will find Informix the leader. If you want to compare Apple Licenses to Licenses for Oranges, then yes. >To me, more licenses means more people using it. Dollars are >great, but not the end all to evaluating market share. >} >Worldwide UNIX RDBMS 1994 Software License Revenue >} > >} >Oracle $1,010.2 42.5% >} >Sybase 468.6 19.7% >} >Informix 392.3 16.5% >} >CA/Ingres 113.1 4.8% >} > >} I presume that the above numbers would include RDB installations as >} well as Watcom SQL installations. >} Nope, the year was 1994 (95 isn't over yet). RDB buy was just being finished, Watcom wasn't owned by you yet. >} I'm not trying to discredit the information, I'm sure they have done >} their homework. I just want things clarified! >} Consider it clarified. >} I would hate for someone to infer that 42% of companies use oracle >} while 19% use sybase-which in the context of the above numbers is >} clearly incorrect. >} I thought the second posting, with a complete explaination of all the numbers and how they are derived would have cleared that up. >} Regards, >} TonyB >} tbas@sybase.com >} >-perryd (Guru) >==================================================================== >= Perry Dillard - Chief Architect Direct Dial: (206)517-6430 = >= FourGen Software, Inc. FAX: (206)522-0054 = >= FourGen Building Tech. Support: (800)444-3398 = >= 115 NE 100th Street Sales: (800)333-4436 = >= Seattle, W.A. 98125-8098 = >= = >= e-mail: perryd@fourgen.com Web Site http://www.fourgen.com = >==================================================================== Thomas Kyte tkyte@us.oracle.com Oracle Government