Re: database market share 2003

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> It seems like you're bending the truth a little bit here.
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I think my point still stands - the market tends to decide what database gets chosen under SAP (or indeed, any packaged app vendor), and is not swayed too much by any contra deals set up between one vendor and another.

Instead of availability of training, consider another metric for what the market wants - a monster search for jobs

"oracle and sap" returns 1178 hits
"db2 and sap" returns 119 hits
"informix and sap" returns 35 hits
"sqlserver and sap" returns (a surprisingy) 7 hits

"oracle and peoplesoft" - 906 hits
"db2 and peoplesoft" - 143 hits
"informix and peoplesoft" - 75 hits
"sqlserver and peoplesoft" - 14 hits

"oracle and siebel" - 493 hits
"db2 and siebel" - 74 hits
"informix and siebel" - 13 hits
"sqlserver and siebel" - 6 hits

Does this mean that demand for Oracle expertise under a packaged app is at least 6 times stronger than for the next closest database ?

And, deamnd aside, given there is a significant lack of training available for anybody to cross skill, does this mean that this will stay this way for the foreseeable future ?

All questions are purely rhetorical, of course.

But there's your marketshare numbers. Received on Tue Jun 15 2004 - 20:50:31 CDT