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by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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As we reported last week, Gartner has released the results of its 2003 DBMS market study. Amidst the usual sniping about which vendor is #1, two interesting points emerged.
First, the RDBMS market is finally emerging from several years of stagnation. It grew 5% last year, to $7.1 billion. As the US economy rebounds, IT spending seems to be finally taking a few tentative steps forward. Don't hold your breath, however, for a return any time soon to the "blank check" era of the late-'90s.
A bigger surprise was the growth of Linux as an enterprise data management platform. In 2002, IBM led the Linux market -- a good thing, since they were almost betting the company on it. However, this latest data shows that Oracle has surged ahead, grabbing $207 million in sales and accounting for 69% of the overall Linux DBMS market. Oracle is especially seeing huge increases in Linux sales in data warehouse environments. Ouch. The enterprise-scale Linux market is small, so the war is not
over yet, though Oracle seems to have won the first battle.
My questions to you, faithful reader, are these:
- Does your company use Linux in a production OLTP environment? (Test, development, and web servers don't count.)
- Do you envision ever moving your current Unix or Windows systems to Linux?
- To those that have evaluated both: which is the winner on Linux, Oracle or DB2?
Send me your thoughts at [EMAIL PROTECTED].
Cheers, Tim
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The challenge of integration
by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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Studies have shown that most modern corporations have from three to ten different DBMS products. Learn more about this complex and growing problem and how integrated systems can provide business value.
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Featured Expert Mike Hillyer, Founder, VBMySQL.com
Category: MySQL
Mike Hillyer is the founder of VBMySQL.com, a popular site for Windows users of MySQL. He holds the MySQL Professional Certification and is the top ranked MySQL expert at Experts-Exchange.com. Mike has written several articles that have been featured in the MySQL newsletter and was a speaker at both the 2003 and 2004 MySQL User Conferences. Mike currently works on the MySQL AB documentation team.
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