I think that the key words in the article are "worldwide new license
revenue" NOT market share...
-Joe
- KENNETH JANUSZ <kjanusz_at_att.net> wrote:
> So how big a market share does DB2 itself command? They don't say.
> Big
> deal, so IBM-Informix have slightly more market share than Oracle.
> If
> Oracle had bought Informix the shoe would be on the other foot.
> Again, big
> deal!
>
> Ken Janusz, CPIM
>
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>
>
> > 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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