Re: a comparison of different databases

Darin Brown <drbrown_at_one.net> writes:

>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).

        thanks for the correction. sorry for the noise, et als Received on Mon Jul 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST