Oracle Trumps Microsoft in Battle for NT
Database Marketshare
PR Newswire - March 29, 1999 08:20
Dataquest Report Shows 55% Oracle Growth Rate on NT Compared with
12% Microsoft Growth Rate
Oracle Widens an Already Commanding Lead in Fastest Growing Database
Market Segments; Remains Undisputed Leader on Unix
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corp.
today announced that it has significantly increased its marketshare on
Windows NT over Microsoft, according to figures just released in
Dataquest's 1998 Worldwide DBMS Preliminary Market Statistics. The
Dataquest report shows that Oracle now holds a commanding 46.1% of the
Windows NT market, with 55% growth in 1998, compared to only 12%
growth for Microsoft. Microsoft's NT marketshare declined significantly,
according to the report down to 29.7% in 1998 from 37.8% in 1997. This is
the third consecutive year that Oracle has gained marketshare over
Microsoft on their own platform, according to Dataquest.
"These numbers show that we have opened the gap considerably over
Microsoft on their own platform," said Chuck Rozwat, senior vice president
of Oracle's Server Technology division. "Customers are overwhelmingly
choosing Oracle on NT over Microsoft because Oracle's core focus on
scalability, reliability and availability are vital considerations for any company
doing business on the Internet."
On UNIX platforms, Oracle remained the undisputed leader, with 60.9% of
the market, according to Dataquest. Informix followed in a distant second
with 13.2%, while IBM and Sybase brought up the rear with 7.3% and
7.1% respectively. Significantly, IBM's goal of becoming an open database
supplier continues to be unsuccessful. According to the report, IBM has less
than 9% of the combined UNIX/NT market. Even on IBM's own UNIX
platform, Oracle outsells IBM DB2 by almost two to one. Microsoft still has
no RDBMS product available for the open systems UNIX platform.
Strong Growth in Database Market Fueled by the Internet
According to Dataquest, the overall market for new database (DBMS)
licenses, which reached $7.1 billion in 1998, grew a robust 15%, driven
largely by demand for Internet applications, electronic commerce, and data
warehousing. Dataquest predicted the overall DBMS market would grow to
$10 billion by 2003.
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for
information management, and the world's second largest independent
software company. With annual revenues of more than $8.3 billion, the
company offers its database, tools and application products, along with
related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 145
countries around the world.
For more information about Oracle, please call 650/506-7000. Oracle's
Worldwide Web address is (URL) oracle.com.
SOURCE Oracle Corporation
/CONTACT: Paige O'Neill 650-506-3429, or poneill@us.oracle.com; or
Reema
Bahnasy 650-506-3397, or rbahnasy@us.oracle.com, both Oracle Corp./
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