Re: database market share 2003

rkusenet wrote: > <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. Dangerous.... asumptions. Di dGartner talk about relational DBMS market? If it's the whole DBMS market all kinds of stuff would be counted here counted here (like IMS et al.). Don't know where/if DB2 CM and Domino fall in here. In the past at least Gartner used to distinguish between Relational and Overall. And of course Oracle would claim anything non-relational deosn't count... will be interesting to see how they wing that with XML ;-) Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 SQL Compiler Development IBM Toronto Lab