Re: Need Information about Oracle Market Share (vs DB2 vs MSSQL)

Oracle is certainly, both nationally (US) and internationally the most used database.

But most used is one of those statistical phrases that leads to lies. For example does this refer to the number of licenses sold? The number of applications built on it? The number of end-users connected? The number of companies using it?

Daniel Morgan

Mark D Powell wrote:

> xtanto_at_hotmail.com (Krist) wrote in message news:<cb48a3b.0202100643.36d5eba4_at_posting.google.com>...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Do you have information about Oracle Market share ?
> > (Vs DB2 vs MSSQL)
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the info,
> > Krist
>
> Try searching the http://www.informationweek.com/ site as I believe
> they had an article with this information in it recently.
>
> It is my understanding Oracle has the largest total market share. DB2
> is now available on UNIX and sells are growing more rapidly than
> Oracle; however, IBM is working from a very small base. Oracle
> actually seems to have a fairly large mainframe base, plus it runs
> under VMS, and NT as well as UNIX. MS-SQL server runs only on MS OS
> platforms though with as many Nt boxes as there are in the world they
> are probably a lot of copies in use.
>
> HTH
>
> -- Mark D Powell --
Received on Sun Feb 10 2002 - 13:18:57 CST