RE: OT - UNIX market

Surveys paid for by who? See who's footing the "Bill" so to speak.

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210-581-6217

"Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [SMTP:DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:57 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: OT - UNIX market
>
> And every survey I see says that on NT, Oracle and MS SQL are nearly
> neck-and-neck. I recall this past year MS SQL edged ahead by a
> tenth-of-a-point market share and Microsoft was really bragging about how
> they had trounced Oracle.
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:10 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> 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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