Re: database market share 2003

From: nobody <nobody_at_devnull.org>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:49:56 -0500
Message-ID: <40B7A5F4.2090804@devnull.org>

Its been proven that Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop. So there's definitely a market need for RDBMS that run on Windows.

Considering that the bulk of the RDBMSs and their applications are small and straight forward, you could run them on a windows server.

So it should be no shock that you will see all major vendors writing for that platform.

Mark A wrote:
> "rkusenet" <rkusenet_at_sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:2hmh03Fdir3uU1_at_uni-berlin.de...
>

>>http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040526/tech_database_marketshare_1.html
>>
>>Interesting to see that database sales for windows is more than
>>Unix.
>>

>
> Windows is the only operating system that supports all of the major
> databases. MS SQL Server only runs on Windows.
>
>
Received on Fri May 28 2004 - 15:49:56 CDT