Re: Market Share

Posted in 1995

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Licensing & Editions, Jobs, Consulting & Announcements

Michael A.P. Hill — Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:33:24 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

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 So, let's be clear here. These figures are based on the value of the licence revenue, not number of users or sites. If vendor A charges twice as much for a licence as vendor B they end up with twice the market share? Assuming my interpretation is right and I'm not missing something from the above, does anyone have figures for sites/users per vendor? Cheers +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael A.P. Hill - mhill@health.gov.sk.ca Consultant LGS Group (Regina) Opinions are mine alone and not 306-359-7808 necessarily those of the company I keep. 306-565-3155 (fax) +--------------------------------------------------------------------+