Re: database market share 2003

From: robert <gnuoytr_at_rcn.com>
Date: 29 May 2004 18:15:41 -0700
Message-ID: <da3c2186.0405291715.5e4125bd@posting.google.com>

"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
>
> Interesting to see that database sales for windows is more than
> Unix.

what i've not seen is the other side of this coin: that (perhaps) IBM's share is skewed (looks larger than it really is) by the fact that it pretty much owns the mainframe. a relative handful of very expensive installs. in other words, i question how relevant DB2 is to the future of relational databases. IBM needs to demonstrate that it is relevant outside of conversions (i use the term very, very loosely) of behemouth COBOL/VSAM systems. at my work, they just defined tables from the copybooks. i gather this is quite common.

robert Received on Sat May 29 2004 - 20:15:41 CDT