On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote: >> of course we know that the percent of product revenue is going down in >> comparison to support revenue, except maybe for microsoft and adobe.* > > This is not true. The bulk of Oracle's revenue still comes from license sales.
i'm looking at professor cusumano's book copyrighted 2004. he claims that oracle's 2003 income statement says that the company made $9,475M in revenues and that 35% is from new license fees and 65% is from services & maintenance. so there has to be an explanation between your authoritative statement and his interpretation. >> is it still true that IBM is still the largest database vendor?* > > This has not been true for at least ten years. my mistake. it is not largest database vendor. IBM is #1 in Software Magazine's Top Fifty Software Companies (2002) with $47,895M in software and services revenues. ms is 24,666, eds 21,543, accenture 13,348, and oracle 10,860 (all in millions of dollars). ibm's total revenues in 2002 was 81,186 including hardware (27,456), other (4,296), services (36,360) and software (13,074). anyway it is nice to know that the big guys are backing linux and that these big guys are somehow making free versions of their great products which adds to the flavors of databases we can choose from. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
