Re: Market Share

tbas@sybase.com (Tony Basoglu) wrote: >tkyte@us.oracle.com (Thomas J Kyte) wrote: >>To give you more information: >> >>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. >I'm not trying to discredit the information, I'm sure they have done >their homework. I just want things 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. >Regards, >TonyB >tbas@sybase.com These market share numbers are based on 1994 revenue for UNIX licenses only. the RDB buy was just being completed at that point so all the revenue would have been for DEC, not Oracle. Also, you had not yet purchased Watcom and Watcom is not a unix based database (windows and nt I believe) so it would not have counted anyhow. Thomas Kyte tkyte@us.oracle.com Oracle Government