Re: database market share 2003

Hi, Does anyone have a softcopy of this Gartner doc? -Chris "rkusenet" <rkusenet@sympatico.ca> Sent by: owner-informix-list@iiug.org 06/03/2004 11:16 AM Please respond to "rkusenet" <rkusenet@sympatico.ca> To informix-list@iiug.org cc Subject Re: database market share 2003 "scottishpoet" <dryburghj@yahoo.com> wrote > In the UNIX segment of the database market, Gartner said sales fell > 5.9% to $2.34 billion last year as most of the leading vendors > declined. Oracle's new license sales fell 8.3% to $1.34 billion, or > 57.4% share; while IBM's sales fell 5.8% to $586.5 million, or 25.1% > share. Informix's total new license sales in 2003 was 140 million. Even assuming that all of those 140 million is on Unix, it means sales of Db2 on unix has overtaken Informix. Interesting. Only last year or so I read that Informix was still outselling Db2 in Unix despite step child treatment by IBM. sending to informix-list

<chris.staubin@reebok.com> wrote > > Hi, > > Does anyone have a softcopy of this Gartner doc? I calculated the figure from this article http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1605396,00.asp It mentions Informix's share as 1.9% of database market (7.1 billion). That makes Informix sales to 140 million. To calculate, the sales of DB2 in Unix, read this:- " In the UNIX segment of the database market, Gartner said sales fell 5.9% to $2.34 billion last year as most of the leading vendors declined. Oracle's new license sales fell 8.3% to $1.34 billion, or 57.4% share; while IBM's sales fell 5.8% to $586.5 million, or 25.1% share. " That makes 440 million to DB2. Given that an article in iiug mentions that aproximately 40% of informix sales were in Linux, it makes informix on unix less than 100 million. Why are we guys even interested in this product any more ?