Re: Database market share 2004

From: Paul <paulsnewsgroups_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:00:40 +0100
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"rkusenet" <usenet.rk_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>Click here to read more about the increasing market share of open-source database
>PostgreSQL.

You would swear from this article that there were no other vendors of db's other than Microsoft, IBM and Oracle.

Where was any mention of Sybase? Pervasive? IBM's Informix offerings? Borland's Interbase? Someone must buy these products! What about MySQL and/or Firebird? MySQL is not free for commercial use - what's its market share? Pervasive have also started to support PostgreSQL, as has another springup (other efforts to make money out of PostgreSQL have failed), but companies can do it because of the FreeBSD licence.

No mention either of any revenue streams for companies that have support contracts for any of the open source dbs.

From the MySQL site

The MySQL database server is the world's most popular open source database. Over six million installations use MySQL to power high-volume Web sites and other critical business systems — including industry-leaders like The Associated Press, Yahoo, NASA, Sabre Holdings and Suzuki.

That has to be market share in some shape or form, but was completely ignored in the article which only mentioned PostgreSQL, and even then only provided a link, with no mention of its market share!

Paul...

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