Surveys paid for by who? See who's footing the "Bill" so to speak.
Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 "Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate." > -----Original Message----- > From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:57 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: OT - UNIX market > > And every survey I see says that on NT, Oracle and MS SQL are nearly > neck-and-neck. I recall this past year MS SQL edged ahead by a > tenth-of-a-point market share and Microsoft was really bragging about how > they had trounced Oracle. > Dennis Williams > DBA > Lifetouch, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:10 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Andrey: > > Gartner and IDC publish several documents on the split of revenues, > number > of licenses, number of servers, etc. for the unix market. I believe the > order is: > 1. Sun > 2. HP & IBM > 3. Compaq Tru64 > 4. Others like Fujitsu, Data General, etc. > > IBM has gained significant ground in the UNIX market with their adoption > of > Linux. Compaq has been losing ground with the Alpha Technology, however, > their support of the Itanium chip may change that. HP is still attempting > to push the SuperDome servers on the market, but their cost is extremely > high. Sun, on the other hand, has its own problems: proprietary > architecture, etc.) The big three are suffering greatly from the .com > explosion. > > In terms of Databases on servers, Oracle dominates the overall unix > marketplace, including IBM. Linux dominates the low-end servers like > Compaq > Intel-based technologies and is slowly gaining ground on the IBM platform. > > Hope this helps. > > Thank You > > Stephen P. Karniotis > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
