Re: Market share, integration with other products

} 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 depends how you measure market share. If you mean number of licences shipped } >then the answer is yes. However if you measure it by revenues, the answer is no. } >This was true at least in 1991 according to the following data attributed to } >IDC: } > Worldwide UNIX RDBMS software licence shipments, 1991 } > ----------------------------------------------------- } > Informix 37% } > Oracle 17.5% } > Unify 14.7% } > Progress 7% } > Ingres 5% } > Sybase 4% } > Interbase 2% } > Empress 1% } > Others 11.8% } > (From Informix advertisement in Database Programming & Design) } } The above numbers include Informix's shipments of SE and On-Line, which } accounts for the large discrepancy between Oracle and Informix. What does the Oracle figure include, or for that matter anybody else's? j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Contractor | Hewlett Packard, BSMC Boise, Idaho, USA| If you keep staring at it like that, jparker@hpbs2561.boi.hp.com | your nose is going to grow (208) 396-5388 (W) (208) 384-1623 (H) | into the bark. _____________________________________________________________________________