Re: database market share 2003

From: scottishpoet <dryburghj_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2 Jun 2004 02:15:04 -0700
Message-ID: <81714288.0406020115.599d7023@posting.google.com>

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The market for database software grew 5% to $7.06 billion in 2003, but much of the increase was the result of currency conversion rather than improved demand, according to market-research firm Gartner.  

The 2003 database sales figures, which Gartner released Wednesday, show International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) continues to be the market leader in terms of new license sales.

But much of IBM's business continues to be on mainframe computers, rather than UNIX or Windows machines. In the UNIX and fast-growing Linux markets, Oracle Corp. (ORCL) outpaced Big Blue.

Overall, IBM's revenue from new database license sales rose 4.9% to $2.52 billion in 2003, Gartner said. That gave the Armonk, N.Y., company 35.7% of the total database market in 2003, flat from the previous year.
Oracle, Redwood Shores, Calif., saw its new license sales rise 2.4% to $2.29 billion, but its market share dropped to 32.6% in 2003 from 33.4% the previous year, Gartner said.

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) continued to gain ground on its two main competitors in the database market. The Redmond, Wash., company's new database license sales rose 11% to $1.32 billion boosting its market share to 18.7% from 17.7% in 2002, Gartner said.

In the UNIX segment of the database market, Gartner said sales fell 5.9% to $2.34 billion last year as most of the leading vendors declined. Oracle's new license sales fell 8.3% to $1.34 billion, or 57.4% share; while IBM's sales fell 5.8% to $586.5 million, or 25.1% share.

The sales of databases for computers running the Linux operating system in 2003 more than doubled to $299.3 million from $116 million a year earlier, Gartner said. Oracle commanded 69.1% of this market, boosted by its clustering offering, while IBM had 28.5% share.

-By Marcelo Prince, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5244; marcelo.prince_at_dowjones.com [ 05-27-04 0733ET ]

"Data Goob" <datagoob_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<VD8vc.43$pa.4_at_fe42.usenetserver.com>...

> "Joel Garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in message news:91884734.0406011500.5222aad7_at_posting.google.com...

> > "Data Goob" <datagoob_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<pT2uc.541$Oi.400_at_fe44.usenetserver.com>...
> > > The problem is Oracles' distributed lock manager.
> > >
> > > Take note, the DLM conzept actually came from IBM, and interestingly
> > > enough, Ingres for Linux will be using it. Look at who is pushing
> > > the DLM, it's OpenDLM from IBM!
> > >
> > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1599317,00.asp
> > > http://oss.software.ibm.com/dlm/
> >
> > Did you read this? It clearly states the DLM concept is modelled
> > after the VAX version. What it doesn't say is that Rdb was the reason
> > for that, and Oracle improved upon it. Later, Oracle bought Rdb, with
> > all of it's attendent intellectual property. Link doesn't seem to
> > have been updated since 9/11/01...
> >

> 
> Yes I read it, very confusing documentation.
> 
> 


> > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/opendlm

> > > http://opendlm.sourceforge.net/

> > >

> > > Oracle came about, if we look at history, from Larry seizing the dbms

> > > opportunity that IBM did not. So, it could be said that Oracle is a
> > > delta of DB2 on the mainframe, in its own incantation, pushed into UNIX.
> >
> > Which is about as accurate as saying X windows are a delta of Windows
> > 3.1.
> >

> 
> Isn't it?  :-)
> 
> I was being liberal in my comments, but I do recall Oracle taking off
> on opportunities that IBM didn't even see.  Bill Gates took advantage
> of a windowed environment that **could** have been modeled after a
> windowing environment at Xerox Park, which ran under X.  So...
> 
> 
> 

> > jg
> > --
> > @home.com is bogus.
> > http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040531/news_mz1b31choney.html
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