Re: database market share 2003

Posted in 2004

Captain Pedantic — Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:18:25 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Darin McBride" <dmcbride@naboo.to.org.no.spam.for.me> wrote in message news:A7uvc.653216$Ig.357895@pd7tw2no... > Noons' second point is that all AS/400 users are counted as DB2 > customers whether they use it or not. Sorta like all Windows users are > counted as IE users, for example. However, what Noons has not proven, > or even attempted to demonstrate, is that this is a significant > distortion of the reality. Fact is that they did buy DB2, although > reality may be that they didn't want to. But is that a significant > portion of the AS/400 market as to render it misleading? In my (somewhat limited) experience, it is *hugely* misleading.