Re: database market share 2003
"rkusenet" <rkusenet@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:2hmh03Fdir3uU1@uni-berlin.de... > http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040526/tech_database_marketshare_1.html > > Interesting to see that database sales for windows is more than > Unix. Interesting, but not entirely surprising, surely? Very few databases on the planet would require the sort of O/S feature set that Unix/Linux brings to the party, and even fewer DBAs would be familiar with the Unix/Linux environment (the ubiquitous nature of Windows on the desktop takes care of the 'comfort' factor, however short-sighted that might be). "Good enough" is often just what the customer needs (I had one just the other week running a 100MB+ database in Access. Not much chance of them ever investing in Oracle, I suspect). The interesting snippet for me in that article was that Oracle has a 69% share of the Linux database market and 300%+ growth. Where the real exciting action is, Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, of course. Regards HJR
"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr@dizwell.com> wrote in message news:40b6450a$0$13784$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > > "rkusenet" <rkusenet@sympatico.ca> wrote in message > news:2hmh03Fdir3uU1@uni-berlin.de... > > http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040526/tech_database_marketshare_1.html > > > > The interesting snippet for me in that article was that Oracle has a 69% > share of the Linux database market and 300%+ growth. Where the real exciting > action is, Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, of course. > > Regards > HJR Define "exciting". Perhaps Microsoft finds it more "exciting" to make money than to throw $200m at a nascent market doing only $116m in 2002.
"Jarmo" <jarmo@jarmo.com> wrote in message news:40b65370$0$20515$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net... > "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr@dizwell.com> wrote in message > news:40b6450a$0$13784$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > > > > "rkusenet" <rkusenet@sympatico.ca> wrote in message > > news:2hmh03Fdir3uU1@uni-berlin.de... > > > http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040526/tech_database_marketshare_1.html > > > > > > > The interesting snippet for me in that article was that Oracle has a 69% > > share of the Linux database market and 300%+ growth. Where the real > exciting > > action is, Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, of course. > > > > Regards > > HJR > > Define "exciting". Perhaps Microsoft finds it more "exciting" to make money > than to throw $200m at a nascent market doing only $116m in 2002. I smell a flame war. And you're welcome to it, but you'll have to play on your own. Exciting means any market that is growing at 300% plus a year. HJR
> > Define "exciting". Perhaps Microsoft finds it more "exciting" to make money > than to throw $200m at a nascent market doing only $116m in 2002. > Certainly gotta be better than spending $1 billion on a 3% market share that's generating only $170 m in rev and dropping by over 15% each year.
Mark Townsend wrote: >>Define "exciting". Perhaps Microsoft finds it more "exciting" to make money >>than to throw $200m at a nascent market doing only $116m in 2002. >> > > > Certainly gotta be better than spending $1 billion on a 3% market > share that's generating only $170 m in rev and dropping by over 15% > each year. Tell me it isn't so. Maybe they'll buy Sybase and Advanced Revelation. Then they'll have a far larger market share than those puny companies like Oracle and Microsoft. Heck by now Ballmer might even be ready to sell Fox and then how could you ever hope to compete. ;-) -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)