Re: ORACLE'S FUTURE?

|> Doug Hewko (doug.hewko_at_synapse.org) wrote:
|> : Is the role of ORACLE as a tool for database development expanding or
|> : decreasing?
|>
|> An excellent series of articles on Oracles Future appears in Inoformation Week
|> magazine, 12/13/93.
|>
|> The Gartner Group is quoted as predicting that Oracle will
|> grow to serve 48% of the Unix market by 1997. Oracle currently has
|> 43% of that market.
|>
|> More significantly, the market is expect to grow from an
|> $813 million today to 2.3 billion in 1997.
|>
|> Other parts of this prediction:
|>
|> Today 1997
|> Informix 22% 12%
|> Ingres 13% 7%
|> Sybase 11% 14%
|> IBM ~0% 9
|>
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Received on Wed Mar 16 1994 - 22:17:19 CET