Re: Market Share

Posted in 1995

Tony Basoglu — Wed, 13 Dec 1995 05:21:28 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

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. 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