I've got the impression that the Posse had agreed on the last podcast that DB2 is insignificant in the DB market. "All the places I've been were using Oracle", etc. Come on, we are technologists...!
So, I thought I might add some related links and numbers: (the numbers on the reports seem to change a little every time... :-/) 1999 - $8 billion - IBM 29.9% ($2.39Bn), Oracle 31.1% ($2.49Bn) http://www.gartner.com/5_about/press_room/pr20000503a.html 2000 - $8.7 billion - IBM 30.1% ($2.62Bn), Oracle 33.8% ($2.94Bn) http://www.gartner.com/5_about/press_room/pr20010523b.html 2001 - $8.8 billion - IBM 34.6% ($3.06Bn), Oracle 32% ($2.83Bn) http://www.gartner.com/5_about/press_releases/2002_05/pr20020507a.jsp 2002 - $6.6 billion - IBM 36.2% ($2.4Bn), Oracle 33.9% ($2.25Bn) http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/pr21may2003a.html 2003 - $7.06 billion - IBM 35.7% ($2.52Bn), Oracle 32.6% ($2.3Bn) http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_86529_11.html 2004 - $7.79 billion - IBM 34.1% ($2.66Bn), Oracle 33.7% ($2.64Bn) http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_127553_11.html 2005 - $13.82 billion - IBM 22.0% ($3.04Bn), Oracle 48.6% ($6.72Bn) http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=493002 (The 2004 numbers here are very different from before... Maybe they are measuring different things now.) "Linux grew the fastest of all the RDBMS platforms (84 percent), driven primarily by Oracle, and the maturation and user acceptance of the Linux platform as a mission-critical DBMS platform." 2006 - $15.21 billion - IBM 21.1% ($3.2Bn), Oracle 47.1% ($7.17Bn) http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=507466 "Each of the major three vendors continue to dominate their particular platform; Oracle on Unix and Linux, Microsoft on Windows, and IBM on the zSeries." 2007 - $18.8 billion - IBM 21% ($3.95Bn), Oracle 44.3% ($8.33Bn) http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147684/idc_oracle_maintains_lead_in_database_market.html (These are IDC numbers) So, DB2 (Almost all of IBM's RDBMS revenue + some Informix) is not *nowhere* out there. For a while it was ahead of Oracle, while it is always ahead of SQLServer. And revenue-wise it hasn't lost ground; it's still growing. Regards, Tasos Zervos --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
