Re: How to determine database market share?

From: gazzag <gareth_at_jamms.org>
Date: 24 Oct 2005 03:32:47 -0700
Message-ID: <1130149966.996718.66520@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

>I don't buy hammers based on marketshare.
>I don't buy books based on marketshare.
>I don't watch movies based on marketshare.
>I don't buy my socks based on marketshare.

Possibly. However, countless organisations that I have worked for - and continue to do so - *have* bought operating systems and RDBMS's based on "market share". That's how Microsoft works, in fact, and it's certainly what Larry Ellison is striving towards.

As a slight aside, I also seem to recall you berating PostgreSQL, amongst other things, for it's lack of "support". Support, it would seem, stems from "market-share". Received on Mon Oct 24 2005 - 05:32:47 CDT