Re: database market share 2003

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.eye-be-em.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 09:38:48 -0400
Message-ID: <ca1r5c$h01$1@hanover.torolab.ibm.com>

Noons wrote:

> Serge Rielau allegedly said,on my timestamp of 7/06/2004 10:29 PM:
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>> It is a bit like me going out there and asking Mark Townsend to 
>> _admit_ that RDB licenses are counted under Oracle's marketshare. Well, I 

>
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> If they are and I'm not aware of such a thing, then it is EQUALLY
> wrong and as blatantly deranged as IBM's claims. And quite frankly if that
> is what Gartner is doing, they truly deserve the title of morons.
> Even Oracle admits RDB is a "hierarchical db" and doesn't have
> the nerve to call it relational!
>

Now, THAT i didn't know. Maybe I was mislead by the R in RDB? ;-) Anyway, irrelevant, I suppose Oracle isn't making a lot of "new licence" revenue with RDB. It would be more of an IDC problem than a Gartner problem since IDC counts renewal which gives them different numbers, AFAIK..

Cheers
Serge

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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab

Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 08:38:48 CDT