Re: Differences between the Microsoft and the Oracle SQL server

From: Kent Milligan <kmill_at_hawkeyes.rchland.ibm.com>
Date: 1996/06/27
Message-ID: <4quvo3$sni_at_news.rchland.ibm.com>#1/1


In article <31D2B7B1.108C_at_uiuc.edu>, Michael Corn <m-corn_at_uiuc.edu> writes:
|> David Williams wrote:
|> >
|> > In article <richu.7.01811531_at_interaccess.com>, richu_at_interaccess.com
|> > >and biggest and baddest database vendor out there..go with ORACLE (40%) of the
|> > >market share...closest competitor is INFORMIX(20%)..wheres SYBASE? (15%)..
|>
|> Why is DB2 not in this list - I rather thought it had a pretty sizeable
|> market share - certainly there's got to be a vast number of legacy
|> systems out there if nothing else.
|>
|> Mike

Yep, DB2 Family share numbers are missing. It's numbers are boosted substantially by the fact that it includes DB2/400 which is the most widely-used multi-user relational database. Since DB2/400 is integrated into the operating system, every AS/400 installed automatically gets DB2/400 and there are about 300,000 of those installed around the world.

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Kenton Milligan
DB2/400 Development 
IBM Rochester-AS/400 Division
kmill_at_rchland.vnet.ibm.com
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Received on Thu Jun 27 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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