RE: OT - UNIX market

Andrey:

  Gartner and IDC publish several documents on the split of revenues, number of licenses, number of servers, etc. for the unix market. I believe the order is:

1. Sun
2. HP & IBM
3. Compaq Tru64
4. Others like Fujitsu, Data General, etc.

IBM has gained significant ground in the UNIX market with their adoption of Linux. Compaq has been losing ground with the Alpha Technology, however, their support of the Itanium chip may change that. HP is still attempting to push the SuperDome servers on the market, but their cost is extremely high. Sun, on the other hand, has its own problems: proprietary architecture, etc.) The big three are suffering greatly from the .com explosion.

In terms of Databases on servers, Oracle dominates the overall unix marketplace, including IBM. Linux dominates the low-end servers like Compaq Intel-based technologies and is slowly gaining ground on the IBM platform.

Hope this helps.

Thank You

Stephen P. Karniotis
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Just curious - anybody knows how is the UNIX market divided between various vendors (sun , HP , Compaq , IBM etc..) ?

And how the DB market divided grouped by UNIX vendor ? I believe that DB2 is the leader on AIX , Ms SQL server - on NT , PostgresSQL or MySQL on linux , while Oracle has most installations on Solaris or HP-UX.
What do U think ?
thanks !

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