Re: Market Share

Distribution: That's all good and fine, but isn't the biggest relational database vendor in the world IBM? I know not that long ago that they had the largest market share in the RDBMS world with MVS/DB2. But then that must have been by revenue not by licenses... Thomas J Kyte (tkyte@us.oracle.com) wrote: : tbas@sybase.com (Tony Basoglu) wrote: : >tkyte@us.oracle.com (Thomas J Kyte) wrote: : >>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% : >> : >I presume that the above numbers would include RDB installations as : >well as Watcom SQL installations. : >I'm not trying to discredit the information, I'm sure they have done : >their homework. I just want things clarified! : >I would hate for someone to infer that 42% of companies use oracle : >while 19% use sybase-which in the context of the above numbers is : >clearly incorrect. : >Regards, : >TonyB : >tbas@sybase.com : These market share numbers are based on 1994 revenue for UNIX licenses only. : the RDB buy was just being completed at that point so all the revenue would have : been for DEC, not Oracle. Also, you had not yet purchased Watcom and Watcom is : not a unix based database (windows and nt I believe) so it would not have : counted anyhow. : Thomas Kyte : tkyte@us.oracle.com : Oracle Government