Re: Determining market penetration.

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 05:28:25 +0100, Paul <paul_at_see.my.sig.com> wrote:

>I have been having a debate recently on another forum about database
>market penetration and how to measure it.

>My point of view would be that even for companies which *_only_*
>produce databases (Oracle until recently, MySQL, say now), it is
>impossible from their financial filings to determine how many
>
>a) paid for installs there are
>
>and
>
>b) if an install is paid for, how much was paid (VAR, Corporate
>resellers, OEM agreements, <insert contractual agreement of your
>choice>).

     What if you need not pay to install?

     What if it is a mix? Microsoft Visual FoxPro is a commercial product, but under the licence, you can deploy as many copies of the run-time as you want, and the deployed run-times can be to customers.

     Another apple and orange fruit medley.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko Received on Fri Oct 21 2005 - 14:11:20 CDT