Re: Market Share

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