Re: a comparison of different databases

From: Mark Rosenbaum <mjr_at_netcom.com>
Date: 1996/07/21
Message-ID: <mjrDuwD65.1FA_at_netcom.com>#1/1

In article <cmarkle.837473603_at_abu.bio.uci.edu>, Chris Markle <cmarkle_at_abu.bio.uci.edu> wrote:
>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).

Care to break out the engine from all of the other stuff Oracle sells? BTW there was a news item that Oracle is now going into training in a big way. Received on Sun Jul 21 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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