Re: a comparison of different databases

Posted in 1996

Mark Rosenbaum — Sun, 21 Jul 1996 14:20:29 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <cmarkle.837473603@abu.bio.uci.edu>, Chris Markle <cmarkle@abu.bio.uci.edu> wrote: >Darin Brown <drbrown@one.net> writes: > >>Chris Markle wrote: >>> >>> the most telling aspect of Oracle, is the percentage of >>> their revenue that comes from sales of DB packages vs >>> the percentage that comes from consulting business. >>> >>> last time I heard (admittedly a couple of years ago) >>> it was 40/60. it might be even more skewed by now. > >>Actually, Oracle does $4 billion in revenue and only about $400 million >>comes from consulting (results from fiscal 96). Care to break out the engine from all of the other stuff Oracle sells? BTW there was a news item that Oracle is now going into training in a big way.