Re: Market share, integration with other products

In article <1993May24.134721.9725@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) writes: >In <walker.738248846@base> walker@us.oracle.com (Walker White) writes: > >>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? I interpreted the above >> to mean that Informix, in a sense, counts some customers double. I assume that many On-Line customers also have SE (the company where I am now was almost such a company, until we learned what a pain On-Line administration was! :-) >>> Worldwide UNIX RDBMS software licencing revenues, 1991 >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> Oracle 47.6% >>> Informix 15.7% >>> <...> > >(That is, oracle earns 3X as much for selling 1/2 as many licenses. Ouch.) Or maybe they tend to sell to more powerful platforms for whatever reason. (I'm not saying that that *is* the case, just that it *could* be given the data that we have). -- Bill Foote bill@pds.com PDS Corp, Los Angeles, CA USA uunet!promdist!bill