Re: Database market share 2004

Posted in 2005

Obnoxio The Clown — Tue, 31 May 2005 10:38:16 +0100 (BST) — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Noons said: > rkusenet wrote: >> respectively. However, there was no clear winner in market share >> overall. Because the >> difference between RDBMS revenue for IBM and Oracle was less than $30 >> million, it is >> statistically too close to declare a winner, according to the report, >> titled "No Clear >> Winner in Overall RDBMS Market Share Race." > > Shewt! Brace yourselves, here comes another IBM aquisition! > If all else fails, BUY market share. Who will it be this time? > Teradata? > > >> "Few users are acquiring Oracle for the Linux platform without the RAC >> option," the Gartner >> report states. > > They gotta be joking... > > >> to IBM, can cluster from two to 1,000 servers and pick up nodes at the >> rate of four per >> hour. > > Attaboy! Let's hope they don't "pick their noses" as well... > > >> are in the room. "We're winning 89.4 percent of the time we're engaging >> against Oracle and >> Microsoft" according to Q1 2005 numbers, he said, thanks not only to >> HADR but also to a >> retrained sales team and the decision to price servers at the chip level >> rather than the >> core level. > > No doubt helped as well by the false "Oracle vars" who end up > selling exclusively IBM solutions. Want examples? > > >> We're saying . >> integrate it seamlessly into the database. All the people who thought we >> had four heads and >> eight eyes, you look at the strategies of our competitors, they're >> starting to go down the >> same path we started down years ago." > > Amazing. IE versus Netscape all over again. And people > STILL buy this crap... This entire post was the usual load of shit. > Im summary, another typical Gartner report: wanna see who > is in front? Who pays more? And then it was redeemed in one short paragraph. :o) -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche A smile is a gift that is free to the giver and precious to the recipient. But giving someone the finger is free too, and I find it more personal and sincere. sending to informix-list