Re: Oracle is king in the database market. It's theirs to lose
Tony,
You must be blinded by Oracle's slick advertising and Ellison's fast talking. Oracle has already lost the game. I'll go on a little more....
According to Dataquest, IBM is the worldwide marketshare leader in the database industry with 32 percent vs. Oracle's 29 percent and Microsoft's 10 percent, and is growing nine times faster than Oracle year-to-year on UNIX and five times faster than Oracle in the combined UNIX/NT market.
Claim: Oracle has the top marketshare in e-business.
Reality: Dataquest gives the top marketshare to IBM. IDC gives it to Oracle. The difference is that IDC numbers include the revenue Oracle makes on support.
Claim: Oracle claims that it is doing business with 65 of the Fortune 100 companies, 10 of the Top 10 insurance companies, 93 percent of the dot.com companies, 9 of the Top 10 business-to-business Web sites (except IBM).
Reality: IBM software is doing the bulk of the work at many of these companies, while Oracle software is only present in minor applications, if at all.
Claim: Oracle is #1 in tools.
Reality: In 11 of the last 13 quarters, Oracle's tools' revenue has decreased substantially.
Claim: Oracle is #1 in warehousing.
Reality: Oracle is #3 at best, after IBM and NCR/Teradata.
Claim: Oracle is #1 in e-business.
Reality: This is clearly a false statement. IBM is the industry-leading e-business provider. Sure, Oracle applications are web-enabled, but the company's e-business claims are certainly magnified. When Oracle attains even the slightest presence in a company -- regardless of how distant the Oracle product is from the web-serving environment -- Oracle claims that it "runs" the customer's e-business.
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