Re: database market share 2003

Serge Rielau wrote:
> Unfortunately I don't have the Gartner report (The summary used to be
> free :-(, But an interesting number to look at may be tracking the
> Windows share.
> IBM Entered that market with DB2 V5 I believe. The Unix market was
> entered with the prior release.
> For being the last one entering the game I think DB2 has been doing
> quite nicely :-)
>
> Cheers
> Serge

If you define the Windows database marketplace as one that doesn't contain MS Access and MS Fox?

I've yet to run into a single instance of DB2 on Windows ... or for that matter DB2 on non-IBM hardware. Do they exist? Of course. But they are few and far between. And almost all in companies that have DB2 on an IBM platform already.

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