Re: Is that true: IBM overtakes Oracle in total database sales

"Thomas Kyte" <tkyte_at_oracle.com> wrote in message news:abbnoo0103l_at_drn.newsguy.com...
> In article <abbjvq$ovu1_at_imsp212.netvigator.com>, "Elao" says...
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> >I heard that IBM is now overtakes Oracle in total database sales.
Is that
> >true? (I heard that one of the reasons why the sales of Oracle is
now in 2nd
> >place is the prices of Oracle9i are so expensive now)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> read:
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> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020508/sfw038_1.html

make sure to read this in the above article ... <g>

    SOURCE: Oracle Corporation

another read is to go to the horse itself ...

<http://www3.gartner.com/1_researchanalysis/focus_areas/enterprise_man agement/entmgmt050602/entmgmt050602.jsp>

Items to note in the sub-article: Flat but not Calm

• IBM is the leader in market share when Informix is included
• IBM is neck and neck with Oracle (31.7 vs 32.0) not including Informix
• SQL Server grew 17.8% from last year
• Oracle's market share _dropped_ from last year: -4.9%
• IBM's market share (not including Informix) grew by 5.7%
• Sybase's market share shrank by -16.1% -- Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering mailto:pablo_at_hpdbe.com http://www.hpdbe.com Available for short-term and long-term contracts