Re: Market Share

chuckm@informix.com (Chuck Miller) wrote: >Tom, >How much does Oracle pay you to monitor this E-mail address and >infuse it with propaganda. What do you mean. Watch the thread. -> Q: What are the market shares of informix,oracle, sybase, ingress (cross posted to many groups including comp.databases.theory,comp.databases.sybase,comp.databases.oracle, comp.databases.informix,comp.databases.ingres) -> Dave Watson (Informix) gives way wrong numbers without any source -> I post 1995 IDC numbers straight out of the book -> Yah, well Informix says to count licenses -> I respond Yah well, lets look at licenses.... Hmmmmm A.) didn't quite have to 'monitor' this News Group to find this one B.) posted factual information anyone can get from Market Share Groups like IDC C.) followed up when asked 'how are these numbers arrived at' with the more info on exactly how these numbers are arrived at. D.) posted information on the SE/Online breakdown to consider when considering just license counts. > Chuck Miller //////////////// > Senior Systems Engineer ////////// // > Informix Software Inc. ////// / /// > 5 Concourse Parkway, Suite 750 ///// // //// > Atlanta, GA 30328 //// // ///// > /// // ////// > Phone 404-395-2300 // // /////// > Fax 404-395-2343 / /////////// > E-mail chuckm@informix.com //////////////// > > Thomas Kyte tkyte@us.oracle.com Oracle Government