Re: database market share 2003

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 22:52:30 -0700
Message-ID: <1085723557.429195@yasure>

Mark Townsend wrote:

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

>
>
> Certainly gotta be better than spending $1 billion on a 3% market
> share that's generating only $170 m in rev and dropping by over 15%
> each year.

Tell me it isn't so. Maybe they'll buy Sybase and Advanced Revelation. Then they'll have a far larger market share than those puny companies like Oracle and Microsoft.

Heck by now Ballmer might even be ready to sell Fox and then how could you ever hope to compete. ;-)

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