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

"Elao" <elao_at_erie.cido.agn.com> wrote in message news:<abbn7h$p6g5_at_imsp212.netvigator.com>...
> My manager want to redevelop the applications by using SQLServer and Visual
> Basic (my company currently use Oracle and Developer to develop the business
> packages). This is because he found that the price of Oracle9i was suddenly
> doubled. As a result, we are now developing new projects by using SQLServer
> (since we are only using Windows). I am afraid my manager not to consider
> Oracle in the future. (in fact, I found that Oracle is still the best
> database in the market now, but my manager only consider the price)
>
> "Chris Weiss" <chris_at_hpdbe.com> wrote in message
> news:abblq8$1ns9$1_at_msunews.cl.msu.edu...
> > The reason IBM jumped ahead was the purchase of Informix. This added ~4%
> to
> > it's total sales, and pushed IBM ahead of Oracle. If you look at
> products,
> > Oracle as a product still leads. Also, Y2K provided IBM a big one time
> > boost. Many file based database systems on mainframes were converted to
> > DB2, and IBM made a very good business move by making this as painless as
> > possible. IBM has made some very good decisions with respect to
> increasing
> > market share.
> >
> > Some healthy competition pushing the leaders back and forth is a *good*
> > thing. If pushing Oracle back makes the company hungry so that it
> improves
> > its TPC benchmarks and lowers prices, I am all for it. More than once I
> > have seen customers chose other products purely on price. Most commonly,
> > this means picking MS SQL Server over Oracle, and not DB2.
> >
> > I think Oracle's decision to support Linux better than it had was a very
> > good one. I think Oracle's changes to forms 9i from 6i were well chosen.
> I
> > also believe Oracle's restructuring of prices was a move in the right
> > direction. However, Oracle tends to require more hardware and its prices
> > are higher than other products. There is a great deal of room for
> > improvement that could allow Oracle to dominate once again.
> >
> >
> > --
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Chris Weiss
> > mailto:chris_at_hpdbe.com
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> >
> > "Elao" <elao_at_erie.cido.agn.com> wrote in message
> > news:abbjvq$ovu1_at_imsp212.netvigator.com...
> > > 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)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >

The reason is IBM bought INFORMIX and blended their numbers in. IBM stated themselves it would have taken 3 years to reach this sales level without it. Splitting out informix numbers Oracle is still top. Look to next years numbers after the correction is over.

Mike Received on Wed May 08 2002 - 16:31:20 CDT