Re: database market share 2003

From: Anton Versteeg <anton_versteeg_at_nnll.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:52:55 +0200
Message-ID: <cac2u8$1c9c$1@sp15en20.hursley.ibm.com>

Noons wrote:
> Mark A allegedly said,on my timestamp of 11/06/2004 3:02 PM:
>

>> You make it sound like IBM has the power of the mafia. I don't think so.

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> I very much think so, having been on the receiving end of their
> sales techniques for a looooooong time....
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>> Actually, a surprising number of companies have purchased Oracle for 
>> OS/390.
>> Oracle gave me 5 references in the Fortune top 25 companies in the US. I
>> checked all 5 out, and all 5 purchased it, but not one was using it for a
>> production system.

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> That to me spells one thing and one thing only: there is a surprising
> number of companies that are looking at ANY way of becoming LESS
> dependent on IBM. I wonder why...
> Unfortunately, there are very few people left around that know
> exactly how to take advantage of that.

You confuse two things:
Buying/using a company's product and becoming dependent on a company. You are right though that customers don't like to be dependent of a company whether it is IBM, Oracle or MS. That is probably why Linux is growing rapidly in spite of MS accusations that it is more expensive to administer. Might also explain why Oracle is growing much less than its rivals. Ever tried to port SQLForm applications?

-- 
Anton Versteeg
IBM Certified DB2 Specialist
IBM Netherlands

Received on Fri Jun 11 2004 - 05:52:55 CDT