Re: oracle platform statistics

From: Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:47:17 -0300
Message-ID: <CAJ2dSGR6CL7fg7rNuUYM2Dk8BVEtcvQY+xShet9nevAUUpmx3g_at_mail.gmail.com>

Ingrid,
  I don't think you can accurately measure market share with #of downloads. For instance we download each piece of software once and put it in a shared disk and deploy about 30 database servers. All of them Linux. Whereas most devs download their own client for windows.

Cheers
Alan.-

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Ingrid Voigt <GiantPanda_at_gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> according to a 2011 DOAG presentation:
> 53% of all OTN downloads (of the database server) are Windows,
> 26% Unix, 19% Linux.
>
>
> Best regards
> Ingrid
>
>
>
> On 21.02.2012 01:48, Betty.Huang_at_emc.com wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Yesterday, I've got a question from someone: what's the percentage of
> > different OS platforms Oracle runs on? Like about what percentage
> > Oracle runs on Linux, what percentage on HP-UX, etc... he needs a
> > rough statistics.
> >
> > I googled and only find this one:
> > http://dba-oracle.com/t_solaris_hpux_aix_linux_windows.htm
> >
> > It says that in IOUG 2006 Oracle survey, Solaris is the most popular
> > one, following Windows and Linux, then HP-UX, then AIX. Since this
> > survey is quite old, I'd like to ask if anyone happened to have some
> > updated information about this?
> >
> > Thanks for your time!
> >
> > Thanks and Best Regards, Betty
> >
> >
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