Re: Market share, integration with other products

In <walker.738248846@base> walker@us.oracle.com (Walker White) writes: >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. Meaning what? Informix sells more of a lower priced product vs. Oracle which sells fewer but at a much much higher price? [Don't get me wrong, I still think Informix is extraordinarily high priced, but I gather Oracle must be an order of magnitude worse.] >> 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) (That is, oracle earns 3X as much for selling 1/2 as many licenses. Ouch.) -- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."