Re: Differences between the Microsoft and the Oracle SQL server

From: Joel Garry <joelga_at_rossinc.com>
Date: 1996/07/01
Message-ID: <1996Jul1.223733.20640_at_rossinc.com>#1/1


In article <31D2B7B1.108C_at_uiuc.edu> 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.

If you go by number of systems rather than number of users, larger systems are skewed out. If you go by dollars, the opposite may be true. You can skew by picking markets, too. Pretty useless measures, anyways.

There are plenty of MSSQL and Sybase 4.x places out there, but who cares.

jg

>
>Mike

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Received on Mon Jul 01 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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