| From: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
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| To: | Melanie <melanie(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)2ndquadrant(dot)it> |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle to buy Sun |
| Date: | 2009-04-20 18:31:49 |
| Message-ID: | alpine.GSO.2.01.0904201332120.26346@westnet.com |
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On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Melanie wrote:
> not sure opensource database like PostgreSQL would suffice to say Oracle
> doesn't have a monopoly.
Adding MySQL to Oracle's market share is barely moving it. Oracle's big
competitors are IBM and Microsoft. According to
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN2634118720080826
at the end of 2007 it was:
Oracle: 48.6%
IBM: 20.7%
Microsoft: 18.1%
That puts everybody else combined at less than 16%, so at best Oracle
could finally reach a majority of sales here, far from a monopoly. Looks
like MySQL yearly sales are expected to be in the $75-$120M range for 2009
(based on 2008 figures and an excellent fiscal Q1), which gives them a
4-7% market share. They're somewhat evasive about that on their site, the
MySQL provided figures I saw were talking about market share among
open-source OS deployments instead.
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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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