Re: Market Share

Percentage of Marketshare based on revenue? I'd rather see it based on licensed sites. If I charge twice as much as my competitors then of course I'd show improved market share. (Not saying that this is true of Oracle but I'd be interested in knowing if the revenue figures include connectivity middleware dollars as well?) That said ... knowing that a data base division of a vendor is doing well (ie producing a healthy revenue stream) is a good indication that the vendor will continue to pump dollars into R&D and the product will grow for the better. -- Brian Capstick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- tkyte@us.oracle.com (Thomas J Kyte) wrote: >tbas@sybase.com (Tony Basoglu) wrote: > >>tkyte@us.oracle.com (Thomas J Kyte) wrote: > >>> >>>Oracle 42.5% >>>Sybase 19.7% >>>Informix 16.5% >>>CA/Ingres 4.8% >>> >>>IDC October 1995 >>Thomas, could you please give the context to these numbers. We >>certainly would not want to take them out of context. > >Sure, > >Each calendar year IDC surveys software vendors to determine their annual >revenues. IDC then creates a quantitative market model of revenue for each >software vendor that includes checks and balances to verify a particular vendors >revenue and its relationship to the total industry. If the model detects a >contradiction between quantitative data (annual reports and 10K reports), and >qualitative data that is supplied from a software vendor (an estimate from the >vendor), IDC will publish the quantitative data. > >*Annual reports conform to the Financial Accounting Standards Board's >guidelines. 10K reports are consistent with the security & Exchange Commission >standards. > >To give you more information: > >Worldwide UNIX RDBMS 1994 Software License Revenue > >Oracle $1,010.2 42.5% >Sybase 468.6 19.7% >Informix 392.3 16.5% >CA/Ingres 113.1 4.8% > > >That is what the above marketshare numbers are derived from, Overall DBMS >revenue in the Unix marketplace during 1994. > >>Sybase has 19.7% of what?? And please dont say market share. That >>term is meaningless. Considering Oracle is still counting the >>installed RDB sites as Oracle sites, these numbers may not indicate >>just RDBMS values/sites/dollars/numberofUsers....... > >>TonyB >>tbas@sybase.com >>Sybase HongKong > >Thomas Kyte >tkyte@us.oracle.com >Oracle Government >