Re: Market share, integration with other products
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 to have >the lead in DBMS market share. Can someone elaborate on the meaning of this? >Does Informix actually have a large installed base than Oracle on UNIX systems? >Can someone give a break down per hardware platform, ie. market share on IBM, DEC, >HP, Sun, etc.? 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) Worldwide UNIX RDBMS software licencing revenues, 1991 ------------------------------------------------------ Oracle 47.6% Informix 15.7% Sybase 10.7% Ingres 10.1% Progress 3.7% Unify 3.2% Interbase 1.3% Empress 1.2% Others 6.4% (From Computerworld Australia) Sorry, I haven't a breakdown by hardware platform. > >It seems like Informix has taken an approach where they are willing to work with >other vendors on integrating their products together. I know Informix works >with Wingz, but can someone provide a list of products that work with Informix? >Include spreadhseets, word processors, other DBMS software, mail, graphics, etc. Informix would probably be the best source for this. They publish a catalog of independent vendor software. >Thanks. > >-- >Alan Beal >IBM Federal Systems Company >Owego, NY >(607) 751-2026 alanb@vnet.ibm.com That's ok. Steve -- /~~` /~~\\ /~~` /| /| /| Stephen Szalla sms@mel.cocam.oz.au | | |_| /_| / | / | Co-Cam Computer Group Tel: +61 3 286 3456 \\__, \\__/ \\_ / |/ |/ | Melbourne, Australia Fax: +61 3 417 7857