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Re: informix market share

From: Mark Townsend <markbtownsend_at_comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:59:41 -0800
Message-ID: <438A486D.9000802@comcast.net>


rkusenet wrote:
> "xiaoxin" <lixiaoxinwb_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1133132461.988551.14130_at_z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>

>>>The market share for Informix was about 5% in 2004, down 1% from 2003.
>>
>>Any links to support your figure?

>
>
> check this post
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_frm/thread/4a450c920bbca6f3/f79b304206e42a46?lnk=st&q=insubject%3Amarket+insubject%3Ashare+insubject%3A2003&rnum=1&hl=en#f79b304206e42a46
>
> It talks about market share in 2003.
>
> Here is how the market share of Informix was reached.
>
> In 2003, total license sales of RDBMS on Unix/Linux was 2.34 billion dollars.
> Informix's share was 140 million. That makes it 5.98%.
>
> Flame: RDBMS on Windows amounted to 2.79 billion.
> That means database sell more on windows than on Unix.
> So much for MS being crap in OS.
>
>

Shouldn't that calculation be 140 million of the _total_ 7.6 billion marketshare in 2003 ? i.e about 1.8% in 2003, now 1.4% in 2004, over .4% of a percent drop, or approximately a total of 108 million in revenue (or a 22% drop in revenue year over year). Those figures are believable Received on Sun Nov 27 2005 - 17:59:41 CST

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