Manish Jethani wrote:
Make that Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle (in that order).
well, I did not choose the order in the headline. This article appeared in Fortune ( http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,431733,00.html ) , and i fwded it to the list as is.
Oracle is still the leader, as per the latest IDC report, with 39.4 percent market share.
That it is. agreed. But it'd be interesting to know what steps oracle and its ilk are taking to keep a step ahead of such 'competition'.
I mean, does oracle even consider MySQl and PostGreSQL as competition even though the MySQL CEO claims tht MySQL has 20% marketshare?
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Hanisha Vaswani wrote:
Manish Jethani wrote:
Make that Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle (in that order).
well, I did not choose the order in the headline.
I was just giving some Additional Info that I got from the web -- didn't mean to say that *you* have done something wrong. I think that's obvious, so please don't take it personally (next time!).
Oracle is still the leader, as per the latest IDC report, with 39.4 percent market share.
That it is. agreed. But it'd be interesting to know what steps oracle and its ilk are taking to keep a step ahead of such 'competition'.
That you have to ask Oracle. See http://www.oracle.com/
Also, ask IBM [http://www.ibm.com/] and Microsoft [http://www.microsoft.com/] to check what they're doing.
I mean, does oracle even consider MySQl and PostGreSQL as competition even though the MySQL CEO claims tht MySQL has 20% marketshare?
Well, as per the IDC report it's Oracle:39.4, IBM:33.6, and Microsoft:11.1. That leaves only 15.9 to share between Sybase, NCR Teradata, and "other vendors".
And also, I'm not sure whether MySQL even qualifies for a *relational* dbms. Does it?
-Manish
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I mean, does oracle even consider MySQl and PostGreSQL as competition even though the MySQL CEO claims tht MySQL has 20% marketshare?
Marketshare, whenever you talk about it you've got to mention which segment you're talking about. IMHO, The overall marketshare figures are often skewed and not worth considering at most of the times.
And oh yes, MySQL might not be feature rich, but Oracle sure must consider it as a competition. Primarily so becuase MySQL AB. thinks of Oracle as competition. Besides that, the number of people who are making the switch from a poprietary DB solution to a more Open/Free one is only increasing.
NASA prefers MySQL more than Oracle. You can find out more here: www.mysql.com/news/article-51.html
Warm wishes,
Amol Hatwar.
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