Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

RDBMS Market Share

1997 RDBMS:
Oracle 27%,
IBM 26.7%,
Microsoft 15%,
Sybase 4.5%,
Informix 4.3%,
CA 3.8%

1997 NT RDBMS: Oracle 38%, Microsoft 35%, Sybase 8%, IBM 7%

By 2001, Microsoft will overtake Oracle as market leader on NT as a direct consequence of the Microsoft Enterprise Agreements (0.7 probability). The shift will be more profound over time. NT accounted for 19 percent of the RDBMS market in 1997 (compared to Unix's 45 percent), but grew 91 percent over 1996. NT will overtake Unix as the revenue leader by 2003 (0.7 probability).

http://www.gartner.com/webletter/microsoftsql/article1.html

In comp.databases.sybase Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:07:08 -0500, Larry Edelstein
> <lsedels_at_us.ibm.com> wrote:
 

>>To answer your question, Oracle had both DB2 UDB and Informix as real
>>competition prior to SQL Server 7. And as of now, if you ask any of the
>>major consulting firms like Gartner, Meta, Giga or if you cruise the press,
>>you will find that DB2 UDB is still "real" competition for Oracle ... very
>>real.
 

> And that boys and girls, is the stark naked truth! Many years ago
> when I was at ORACLE, I warned them many, many times the REAL danger
> was DB2. Not Ingres, Sybase and MS/SS: those were just pebbles. Every
> single ORACLE "illuminati" tought I was mad, a "mainframe neandertal"
> and other niceties.
 

> IBM has the people and the serious industry attitude to do real damage
> to ORACLE. And they're starting to have the product too... It's gonna
> be fun from now on! Watch out, Larry. I mean, the ORACLE Larry! :-)

> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam
> http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html

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