{"id":304,"date":"2005-03-08T18:25:34","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T16:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=304"},"modified":"2005-03-08T18:25:34","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T16:25:34","slug":"linux-a-database-to-be-feared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Linux, a database to be feared?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Reuters article on some research done by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/\">IDC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itweb.co.za\/sections\/enterprise\/2005\/0503080953.asp?S=Reuters&amp;A=REU&amp;O=FRGN\">appearing on ITWeb<\/a>) had a comment on the market share of various database vendors. Measuring revenue, the leaders were, in order, Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>The article was unsatisfactory for a number of reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>there&#8217;s no indication of whether OSS vendors had their revenue included (whether from support or commercial licences)<\/li>\n<li>the influence of the OSS DBMS&#8217;s sounds is referred to in the same way Microsoft mentions Linux. IDC says database deployments grew faster than revenues due to <em>strong downward price pressure caused by tight competition among the big three vendors and a little bit by the presence of open source<\/em><\/li>\n<li>and best of all, the real OSS DBMS to be worried about is, yes, you guessed it, that flagship of OSS database adoption in the enterprise, Linux. I quote:<em> all three companies will also face continued competitive pressures from open source database products, such as Linux.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IDC are the self-proclaimed premier global market intelligence and advisory firm in the information technology and telecommunications industries. Perhaps the error slipped in with Reuters or ITweb, but I suspect not. Either way, I pity the company basing decision upon this premier information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reuters article on some research done by IDC appearing on ITWeb) had a comment on the market share of various database vendors. Measuring revenue, the leaders were, in order, Oracle, IBM and Microsoft. The article was unsatisfactory for a number of reasons: there&#8217;s no indication of whether OSS vendors had their revenue included (whether&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=304\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux, a database to be feared?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-technical","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}