Re: Market share, integration with other products

In <1ttdu8INNggj@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> bryan@carsinfo.com (Bryan Klopfenstein) writes: >>} sms@cocamrd.mel.cocam.oz.au (Steve Szalla) writes: >>} >>} >In article <C70oD4.vrM@hawnews.watson.ibm.com> alanb@vnet.ibm.com writes: >>} >>I have seen articles where Informix claims that it has a larger market share on >>} >>UNIX platforms that Oracle, Sybase, and Ingres. But then Oracle claims >It all seemed simple enough to me.... >Informix claims a larger market share *on*UNIX*platforms* and Oracle >claims a larger market share *overall* (which I assume includes DEC's >VMS or OpenVMS and perhaps other non-UNIX operating systems). Whilst these statements are both undoubtedly true, the two datasets we were presented with *both* *claimed* to be for UNIX shipments. >It didn't seem to me to be a matter of how to calculate market share, >but how to calculate *market*. Informix was counting UNIX only, Oracle >was including at other platforms as well. Then the data was mislabelled. graeme -- Disclaimer: The author's opinions are his own, and not necessarily those of Pyramid Technology Ltd. or Pyramid Technology Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -m------- Graeme Sargent Voice: +44 (0)252 373035 ---mmm----- Senior Database Consultant Fax : +44 (0)252 373135 -----mmmmm--- Pyramid Technology Ltd. Telex: Tell who??? -------mmmmmmm- Farnborough, Hants GU14 7PL Email: graeme@pyra.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the technology. The tricky bit is learning how to use it.