Re: database market share 2003

Sybase still exists? I thought Chen ran it in to the ground cause he smoked the same stuff Oracle and Microsoft were feeding him about databases being a comodity. The point of my comment was that Microsoft was a viable platform and one that should be targeted by DBMS manufacturers. Daniel Morgan wrote: > Mark A wrote: > >> "nobody" <nobody@devnull.org> wrote in message >> news:40B7A5F4.2090804@devnull.org... >> >>> Its been proven that Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop. So there's >>> definitely a market need for RDBMS that run on Windows. >>> >>> Considering that the bulk of the RDBMSs and their applications are small >>> and straight forward, you could run them on a windows server. >>> >>> So it should be no shock that you will see all major vendors writing for >>> that platform. >>> >> >> Both Oracle and DB2 have mature DBMS products that run on Windows. > > > As, it should be noted, does Sybase. >