Re: feature & performance comparison

Dear all,

Two pieces of contradictory information for your reference:

1.on Oracle site:
URL:
http://www.oracle.com/features/9i/index.html?dataquest.html Title:
"Oracle the #1 Database, Says Dataquest - Widens worldwide database market lead by 3.7 percent over IBM"
Quote:
"In the worldwide database market, Oracle leads in market share for the fourth consecutive year. Oracle's market share grew from 31.1 percent in 1999 to 33.8 percent in 2000, a 2.7 percent jump. In contrast, IBM's market share barely budged: it increased just .2 percent, from 29.9 percent to 30.1 percent. Overall, this market grew 10 percent in 2000."

2.in a local weekly business magazine published just now (June 8th): Title:
"Why IBM makes Oracle's Ellison sleepless?" Quote: (translated into English)
"Although Oracle owns a 50% non-mainframe market share, its sales has been at a standstill for the past two quaters. At the same time, IBM gained a 36% growth in High-end Unix Open System area, while Oracle did only 6%. After acquiring Informix, the No. 2 database vendor, on April 24th, IBM became the No. 2 non-mainframe vendor, with a 25% market share."

HTI, Dino

On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 00:58:48 GMT, "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-family_at_home.com> wrote:

>Flame war brewing.
>I did notice on the Oracle site an article stating that IBM showed off their
>new servers by using Oracle to get some great tpc-c benchmark numbers. The
>article goes on to wonder why they did not use DB2 (fair question).
>
>Draw your own conclusions.
>Jim
>
>
>"swp" <DSAsteve_at_aol.com> wrote in message
>news:a59bd1d2.0106071150.4cca1d15_at_posting.google.com...
>> I am posting this to both the Oracle and DB2 newsgroups in the hopes
>> that I will get a better set of answers.
>>
>> I would like to see a comparison of features that are in Oracle 9i and
>> the latest version of DB2. I have heard that DB2 is blowing Oracle
>> away right now, at least until the middle/end of summer. [I can't
>> remember where I read that review.] An objective comparison by an
>> independent third party would be best, of course. Or if anyone out
>> there has already done one for themselves that would be appreciated as
>> well. Just a comparison of the features, not what they can or should
>> be used to do or when or under what circumstances ~ that leads to
>> individual opinion creeping in too much.
>>
>> I would also like a performance comparison of the two. How they stack
>> on up similar machines with similar user loads across a wide variety
>> of platforms. I am sure that someone has already done this, perhaps
>> the Gartner Group, but I cannot find an honest "apples to apples"
>> comparison anywhere.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> swp
>
Received on Sat Jun 09 2001 - 21:18:33 CDT