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Re: informix market share

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:50:37 -0500
Message-ID: <3uv9k3F137kcjU1@individual.net>


rkusenet wrote:

> "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:438A4E7C.6020000_at_comcast.net...
> 

>>rkusenet wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Mark,
>>>To get the context of 5.8%, please read my earlier
>>>reponse here
>>>http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_frm/thread/23efaf53d18c215b/e5fa01410ec60ad1#e5fa01410ec60ad1
>>>
>>>SQL Server's share is around 19% overall, but an awesome 60%
>>>in Windows. So to get the right prespective, I think one should
>>>mention that.
>>>
>>
>>I did read it, I was in fact pointing out that I think your selection of market size is flawed.
>>I don't see how you can exclude Windows, its the largest market for all of the vendors,
>>including Informix (I presume); and to provide comparable numbers to the other vendor's reported
>>numbers in the article you posted, you need to take the whole market.
> 
> 
> You do have a point.
> 
> 

Including mainframes?
-- 
Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Sun Nov 27 2005 - 20:50:37 CST

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