Re: News.

So how big a market share does DB2 itself command? They don't say. Big deal, so IBM-Informix have slightly more market share than Oracle. If Oracle had bought Informix the shoe would be on the other foot. Again, big deal!

Ken Janusz, CPIM

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> Gartner: IBM Steals Database Crown from Oracle
>
> IBM has dislodged Oracle Corp. from the top of the market for database
> management software, helped along by its billion-dollar purchase of
Informix
> Corp., according to new figures being released today by Stamford,
> Conn.-based Gartner Inc.
>
> In 2001, IBM and Westborough, Mass.-based Informix captured a combined
34.6%
> of worldwide new license revenue from database management systems, besting
> Oracle's 32%, Gartner said. In 2000, the totals were 33.7% for
IBM-Informix
> and 34.1% for Oracle.
>
> The market as a whole generated $8.8 billion in revenue, growing just 1.4%
> from the previous year. In contrast, revenue climbed a brisk 10% from 1999
> to 2000, Gartner said.
>
> Most database management systems vendors saw single-digit or negative
> growth, although Microsoft Corp. was a notable exception, Gartner said.
The
> software giant saw revenue from new database management systems licenses
> climb 17.8%, putting it in third place behind Oracle with 16.3% of the
> market. Sybase Inc. was a distant fourth with 2.6%.
>
> For more on this story
>

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