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From: Mark Leith <mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:08:23 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00460142.20020514070823@fatcity.com>

Gartner: IBM Steals Database Crown from Oracle

IBM has dislodged Oracle Corp. from the top of the market for database management software, helped along by its billion-dollar purchase of Informix Corp., according to new figures being released today by Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc.

In 2001, IBM and Westborough, Mass.-based Informix captured a combined 34.6% of worldwide new license revenue from database management systems, besting Oracle's 32%, Gartner said. In 2000, the totals were 33.7% for IBM-Informix and 34.1% for Oracle.

The market as a whole generated $8.8 billion in revenue, growing just 1.4% from the previous year. In contrast, revenue climbed a brisk 10% from 1999 to 2000, Gartner said.

Most database management systems vendors saw single-digit or negative growth, although Microsoft Corp. was a notable exception, Gartner said. The software giant saw revenue from new database management systems licenses climb 17.8%, putting it in third place behind Oracle with 16.3% of the market. Sybase Inc. was a distant fourth with 2.6%.

For more on this story
http://computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/software/story/0%2C10801%2C7090 3%2C00.html?nlid=AM

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