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From: dba6319 on 8 Feb 2010 10:00 And I thought professional whiners in cdi claim that Oracle is more than IBM + Microsoft combined after IBM took over Informix. Taken from today's WSJ article Larry Ellison, chief executive of software giant Oracle Corp., has recently suggested his company's acquisition of Sun Microsystems�a major player in Unix servers�will spell trouble for IBM. But IBM executives say the Power7 announcement only ensures their market-share lead in the Unix market; IDC, a research firm, says IBM's share of the market for Unix systems has swelled to 39% today from 25% in 2003.
From: The Boss on 8 Feb 2010 14:19 dba6319(a)gmail.com wrote: > And I thought professional whiners in cdi claim that Oracle is > more than IBM + Microsoft combined after IBM took over Informix. > > Taken from today's WSJ article > > > Larry Ellison, chief executive of software giant Oracle Corp., has > recently suggested his company's acquisition of Sun Microsystems-a > major player in Unix servers-will spell trouble for IBM. But IBM > executives say the Power7 announcement > only ensures their market-share lead in the Unix market; IDC, a > research firm, says IBM's share of the market for Unix systems has > swelled to 39% today from 25% > in 2003. Apples and pears/oranges. You're comparing _databases_ on Unix (or rather DBMS's) with _hardware_ platforms running Unix. -- Jeroen
From: Mark A on 8 Feb 2010 15:39
<dba6319(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:hkp8uu0v3(a)drn.newsguy.com... > And I thought professional whiners in cdi claim that Oracle is > more than IBM + Microsoft combined after IBM took over Informix. > > Taken from today's WSJ article > > Larry Ellison, chief executive of software giant Oracle Corp., has > recently > suggested his company's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, a major player in > Unix > servers, will spell trouble for IBM. But IBM executives say the Power7 > announcement > only ensures their market-share lead in the Unix market; IDC, a research > firm, > says IBM's share of the market for Unix systems has swelled to 39% today > from > 25% > in 2003. The article is referring to hardware sales for UNIX servers, not database sales. Oracle is now in the hardware business by virtue of its purchase of Sun Microsystems. |