Re: How to determine database market share?

"Billy" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote:

> > I would like to know

> WHO. THE. HELL. CARES. !!!
I.FUCKING.DO - THAT'S.WHY.I.ASKED.THE.FUCKING.QUESTION.  
> Everyone know just how much bull market share measures and statistics
> are. Unless one is a troll or a jackass in a marketing suit.

And the whole point of my post (I thought that I had stressed it at the time) was to *_try_* or *_attempt_* to get beyond the "bull market share measures and statistics" and come up with an idea of how to get real market share data, rather than just relying on presss releases.

Paul...

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