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| 1291.1 | What are the trends? | BROKE::HIGGS | SQL is a camel in disguise | Tue Aug 31 1993 20:46 | 16 |
| Interesting Barry. One message I get is that the company with the lowest
engine/tool ratio (Informix) is the one with the highest revenue per employee
and the highest assets per employee, and the one with the highest ratio
(Oracle) has the lowest. Not that I have high confidence in the statistical
significance of the sample, of course. And based on these figures, ASK/INGRES
looks in better shape than Sybase and Oracle, which I have a hard time
believing.
What would your interpretations be?
What might be even more interesting is what the trends are; is each of these
vendors expanding the tools segment? applications segment? and what are the
revenue and assets trends for each?
Bryan
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| 1291.2 | some impressions | SSGV01::NEEDLEMAN | | Wed Sep 01 1993 19:01 | 30 |
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re .1
>Interesting Barry. One message I get is that the company with the lowest
>engine/tool ratio (Informix) is the one with the highest revenue per employee
>and the highest assets per employee, and the one with the highest ratio
I think rev/employee may have more to do with 3,000 VARS
>(Oracle) has the lowest. Not that I have high confidence in the statistical
>significance of the sample, of course. And based on these figures, ASK/INGRES
soloman brothers is PROBABLY a better source than dataquest or gartner
for this type of data...
>What would your interpretations be?
well, to start, i do not see consulting $ and that skews my answers.
informix engines include c-isam i guess, so that their numbers are also
suspect from a DB vendor point of view.
I note the growth of sybase and ingres engines at Oracles expense..
I wonder if it implies international unix servers revenues are also
growing fast...
well, that is my initial impressions.
B
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| 1291.3 | | CSC32::S_MAUFE | this space for rent | Wed Sep 01 1993 19:20 | 13 |
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some nioce person sent me a European Freelance magaizine listing
contracts available, the database jobs broke down as
60% sybase
30% oracle
5% others
5% rdb
So either there are a lot of deccies on the market so there's no need
to advertise, or there aren't a whole heck of a lot of rdb sites!
Simon
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| 1291.4 | lies, damned lies, and statistics | MSDOA::SECRIST | Let me show you the future. | Wed Sep 01 1993 20:09 | 16 |
| ; some nioce person sent me a European Freelance magaizine listing
; contracts available, the database jobs broke down as
;
; 60% sybase
; 30% oracle
; 5% others
; 5% rdb
;
; So either there are a lot of deccies on the market so there's no need
; to advertise, or there aren't a whole heck of a lot of rdb sites!
...or Rdb simply performs better than everyone else and therefore
requires less outside consulting ;-)
rcs
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