Re: database market share 2003

rkusenet said: > > "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. I haven't been paying attention, but I'd guess that the IBM figures include Informix...? -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "Necrophilia means never having to say ... well, anything!" - Captain Pedantic "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco sending to informix-list