Re: Market Share

Oracle 42.5% Sybase 19.7% Informix 16.5% CA/Ingres 4.8% IDC October 1995 Dave Watson <dwatson@informix.com> wrote: >The most recent analyst reports collectively had 1994 UNIX >RDBMS marketshare (by revenue) approximately Oracle 35%, >Sybase 20%, Informix 20%. The balance consists of many DBMS >products including Allbase/SQL, Ingres, Interbase, DB2/6000, >Unify, Progress etc. >If you look at the numbers by units shipped (rather than $ >revenues), then you will see Informix as the market leader >with just less than 40%. This reflects on the fact that >Informix sells more DBMS software through applications >vendors and other resellers than either Oracle or Sybase. > >You can get the actual numbers from many analyst firms >including the Gartner Group and IDC. >Dave >==== >enduser@enduser.com (EndUser) wrote: >>its running about: >> >>Oracle 50%, Sybase 25%, Informix 10%, and Ingres roughly 10% (europe is >>mostly Ingres). >>the rest is split among vendors like IBM, and Progress. >> >>-- >> >>In article <1995Dec6.041129.930@il.us.swissbank.com>, >>piggotj@swissbank.com wrote: >> >>> Does anybody know the latest figures for relational database market share >>> by vendor ? >>> >>> I am mostly intrested in the four big vendors Oracle,Sybase,Informix & >>> Ingres. >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jon Thomas Kyte tkyte@us.oracle.com Oracle Government