Re: informix market share

From: Bob Jones <email_at_me.not>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:39:45 GMT
Message-ID: <5F5jf.34414$6e1.17780@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>

"Serge Rielau" <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote in message news:3v2rq0F12n6pqU2_at_individual.net...
> Bob Jones wrote:

>>>>>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?
>>>
>>
>>
>> What is this deal with including mainframes or not? Should we start 
>> talking about DB2 market share including mainframes, and Informix 
>> excluding mainframes?

> That as a joke. Some would like to exclude mainframes just like they like
> to exclude Windows. I think the term used is "marketshare on modern OS"
> ;-)

>

> Cheers
> Serge
> --
> Serge Rielau
> DB2 SQL Compiler Development
> IBM Toronto Lab

I forgot that IBMers consider mainframe a mordern OS. Received on Tue Nov 29 2005 - 17:39:45 CST