RE: Gardner update for 2003

Niall

   I think you are correct from an employment point of view. From a vendor's point of view, new sales are everything. It may be nice to have some maintenance revenue rolling in from past years. But when the new sales revenue dries up, jobs are quickly slashed, new development stops, etc.

   A good story I heard: Suppose you owned a printing shop with about 10 presses. Suppose each press lasts about 10 years. So you try to replace a press each year. But this is a tough year with few sales. So you decide instead of replacing a press to defer that till next year. From the press manufacturer's point of view, the market just dropped to zero. Then next year is pretty good, so you decide to catch up and replace two presses. The press manufacturer's market just shot out of sight. Based on that, I'm glad to work closer to the end consumer.
Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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I have no idea, I didn't make the point about non-RDBMS products but equating *new* licence revenue with market share. I'd equate *total units licensed* with market share and *new* licence revenue with growth potential.

Niall

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> really? What non-relational database products is ibm selling?
> They seem to get a large portion of their income from those products?
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> > Ryan writes
> > > 3. Doesnt include 'new' development. Just existing stuff. So most
> > > jobs are on projects where they are actually doing development.
> > >
> > > or am I wrong here?
> >
> > My reading of the stats is that they define "market share" as "new
> > licence revenue". Don't get me wrong both are important but
> it would
> > be good not to confuse the one with the other.
> >
> > Niall
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