Re: database market share 2003

Posted in 2004

Blair Adamache — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:48:25 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

IBM's relational database software revenue on zOS has increased for more than 5 consecutive years. If you want to project ahead 10 years, perhaps Oracle's share on Sun should be discounted - I think Oracle+Sun is much more of a legacy business than DB2 on zOS. robert wrote: > > growing??? there was a news report a couple of days ago that IBM's > MF business was about $3 (or $4) billion annually. and that 10 years > ago it was $12 billion. i didn't attempt to verify this, of course. > anyone is welcome to do so. but, on the face of it, DB2/MF is NOT the > future. > > robert