Oracle says it's still king, dominates Linux, as IBM takes overall RDBMS crown.(News Review)

From: RETHINK IT | Date: July 1, 2004 | Copyright information

Oracle is in a bit of a pout. It says that no matter what a well respected research group that it won't name says, customers and analysts agree that Oracle remains first in the modern relational database market, and it says it loudly, if somewhat unclearly, from its web site.

What's triggered all this is a report from Garner; which counts all sales of relational database software by vendor and which places IBM ahead of Oracle. It showed that IBM makes more money from RDBMS, even without adding in Informix revenues, than Oracle, with IBM sales coming in at $2.38bn this year, ...

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