Re: a comparison of different databases

From: Darin Brown <drbrown_at_one.net>
Date: 1996/07/13
Message-ID: <31E71FA6.23DE_at_one.net>#1/1


Chris Markle wrote:
>
> the most telling aspect of Oracle, is the percentage of
> their revenue that comes from sales of DB packages vs
> the percentage that comes from consulting business.
>
> last time I heard (admittedly a couple of years ago)
> it was 40/60. it might be even more skewed by now.

Actually, Oracle does $4 billion in revenue and only about $400 million comes from consulting (results from fiscal 96). Received on Sat Jul 13 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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