Re: database market share 2003

From: nobody <nobody_at_devnull.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 07:57:09 -0500
Message-ID: <40C5B7A5.6000101@devnull.org>

Sybase still exists?
I thought Chen ran it in to the ground cause he smoked the same stuff Oracle and Microsoft were feeding him about databases being a comodity.

The point of my comment was that Microsoft was a viable platform and one that should be targeted by DBMS manufacturers.

Daniel Morgan wrote:
> Mark A wrote:
>

>> "nobody" <nobody_at_devnull.org> wrote in message
>> news:40B7A5F4.2090804_at_devnull.org...
>>
>>> Its been proven that Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop. So there's
>>> definitely a market need for RDBMS that run on Windows.
>>>
>>> Considering that the bulk of the RDBMSs and their applications are small
>>> and straight forward, you could run them on a windows server.
>>>
>>> So it should be no shock that you will see all major vendors writing for
>>> that platform.
>>>
>>
>> Both Oracle and DB2 have mature DBMS  products that run on Windows.

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> As, it should be noted, does Sybase.
>
Received on Tue Jun 08 2004 - 07:57:09 CDT