Also note that Oracle all of a sudden seems to embrace Windows NT as a
"modern" environment, while excluding zOS / OS390.
Jeroen.
"Pablo Sanchez" <pablo_at_dev.null> schreef in bericht
news:kEfC8.284$pa4.124657_at_news.uswest.net...
>
> "Thomas Kyte" <tkyte_at_oracle.com> wrote in message
> news:abbnoo0103l_at_drn.newsguy.com...
> > In article <abbjvq$ovu1_at_imsp212.netvigator.com>, "Elao" says...
> > >
> > >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:
> >
> > 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
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