Re: database market share 2003

"Darin McBride" <dmcbride_at_naboo.to.org.no.spam.for.me> wrote in message news:A7uvc.653216$Ig.357895_at_pd7tw2no...

> Noons' second point is that all AS/400 users are counted as DB2
> customers whether they use it or not. Sorta like all Windows users are
> counted as IE users, for example. However, what Noons has not proven,
> or even attempted to demonstrate, is that this is a significant
> distortion of the reality. Fact is that they did buy DB2, although
> reality may be that they didn't want to. But is that a significant
> portion of the AS/400 market as to render it misleading?

In my (somewhat limited) experience, it is *hugely* misleading. Received on Thu Jun 03 2004 - 13:18:25 CDT