Re: database market share 2003

Posted in 2004

rkusenet — Thu, 3 Jun 2004 11:16:00 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"scottishpoet" <dryburghj@yahoo.com> wrote > In the UNIX segment of the database market, Gartner said sales fell > 5.9% to $2.34 billion last year as most of the leading vendors > declined. Oracle's new license sales fell 8.3% to $1.34 billion, or > 57.4% share; while IBM's sales fell 5.8% to $586.5 million, or 25.1% > share. Informix's total new license sales in 2003 was 140 million. Even assuming that all of those 140 million is on Unix, it means sales of Db2 on unix has overtaken Informix. Interesting. Only last year or so I read that Informix was still outselling Db2 in Unix despite step child treatment by IBM.