Re: database market share 2003

"Jarmo" <jarmo_at_jarmo.com> wrote in message news:40b65370$0$20515$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
> news:40b6450a$0$13784$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> >
> > "rkusenet" <rkusenet_at_sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> > news:2hmh03Fdir3uU1_at_uni-berlin.de...
> > > http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040526/tech_database_marketshare_1.html
> > >
> >
> > The interesting snippet for me in that article was that Oracle has a 69%
> > share of the Linux database market and 300%+ growth. Where the real
> exciting
> > action is, Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, of course.
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR

>
> Define "exciting". Perhaps Microsoft finds it more "exciting" to make
money
> than to throw $200m at a nascent market doing only $116m in 2002.

I smell a flame war. And you're welcome to it, but you'll have to play on your own.
Exciting means any market that is growing at 300% plus a year.

HJR Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 16:33:14 CDT