Re: database market share 2003

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.eye-be-em.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:05:48 -0400
Message-ID: <caokfs$mle$1@hanover.torolab.ibm.com>

I think adjusted by various means (like adding DB/2 to the search criteria, making sure to exclude Oracle Apps and other Oracle products and the much debated DBA/DB ratio which is hard to nail down) the numbers may indeed reflect Oracle's market share in the same way as the used parts results for the orginal beetle on ebay tells us something about how many beetles are out there.
A more sarcastic observer may call these legacy systems (like those old upgraded DB2 on mainframe systems. ;-)

The interesting numbers to be are new license revenues. Is the ratio of Siebel/Oracle to Siebel/DB2 shifting?
This is like climate change. It's not like in "The day after tomorrow"

Cheers
Serge

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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab

Received on Wed Jun 16 2004 - 00:05:48 CDT