Oracle intersted in buying Ubunutu

Alexander Jacob Tsykin stsykin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 15:50:33 BST 2006


On Friday 21 April 2006 00:24, Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op do, 20-04-2006 te 14:26 +1000, schreef Alexander Jacob Tsykin:
> > On Linux, Oracle has an 80.5% market share
>
> IMHO market share in dollars for sales of database server software on
> linux isn't that relevant if probably more than 90% or 95% of database
> installs on linux are gratis or at least relatively cheap (MySQL,
> PostgreSQL, etc.).  Less than 5% is what I would call a niche player,
> not a market leader.  Or: how to lie with statistics...  ;-)
>
fair enough. I don't know those particular statistics.

Sasha



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