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To: J Krnjeu who wrote (21051)	4/21/1999 3:39:00 AM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) of 74651

MSFT is taking market share from Oracle. There's little indication that Microsoft was taking the market share from Oracle in '98 -- the year for which statistics are available. These are the stats: Preliminary Worldwide Database New License Revenue Market Share Estimates for 1998 1998 Market Share (%) 1997 Market Share (%) -------------------- --------------------- IBM 32.3 28.9 Oracle 29.3 29.4 Microsoft 10.2 9.9 Informix 4.4 4.8 Sybase 3.5 4.5 Others 20.3 22.5 Source: Dataquest (March 1999) It looks like Microsoft's slight gain is coming more from Sybase and others. Now it could be that SQL Server 7, which was available for only part of 1998, is shifting the balance, but then again both IBM and Oracle have introduced new database products as well.

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