Re: informix market share

From: rkusenet <rkusenet_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:06:05 -0500
Message-ID: <NRrif.1318$wf2.105932@news20.bellglobal.com>

"Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:438A486D.9000802_at_comcast.net...

> rkusenet wrote:

>> "xiaoxin" <lixiaoxinwb_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1133132461.988551.14130_at_z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>>>The market share for Informix was about 5% in 2004, down 1% from 2003.
>>>
>>>Any links to support your figure?
>>
>>
>> check this post
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_frm/thread/4a450c920bbca6f3/f79b304206e42a46?lnk=st&q=insubject%3Amarket+insubject%3Ashare+insubject%3A2003&rnum=1&hl=en#f79b304206e42a46
>>
>> It talks about market share in 2003.
>>
>> Here is how the market share of Informix was reached.
>>
>> In 2003, total license sales of RDBMS on Unix/Linux was 2.34 billion dollars.
>> Informix's share was 140 million. That makes it 5.98%.
>>
>> Flame: RDBMS on Windows amounted to 2.79 billion.
>> That means database sell more on windows than on Unix.
>> So much for MS being crap in OS.
>>
>>

> Shouldn't that calculation be 140 million of the _total_ 7.6 billion marketshare in 2003 ? i.e 
> about 1.8% in 2003, now 1.4% in 2004, over .4% of a percent drop, or approximately a total of 
> 108 million in revenue (or a 22% drop in revenue year over year). Those figures are believable

Mark,
To get the context of 5.8%, please read my earlier reponse here
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_frm/thread/23efaf53d18c215b/e5fa01410ec60ad1#e5fa01410ec60ad1

SQL Server's share is around 19% overall, but an awesome 60% in Windows. So to get the right prespective, I think one should mention that. Received on Sun Nov 27 2005 - 18:06:05 CST