SQL Server Rules the Database market
Register | at | by Mike
How's the year been for SQL Server?
SQL Server has had a truly tremendous year. We've nailed down 35 per cent year-on-year growth. We've broken the $1 billion sales mark. And we aren't leaving it there. We've got Oracle firmly in our sights. We are catching them with ease right now, last year we outdid them on NT whilst they remained flat. Our database business is one of the best places you could wish to be right now.
If you look at Oracle, it's a one product company. Oracle is in serious trouble. It's revenues are down, its applications aren't any good and its database revenues fell 5 per cent. And we are stealing market share from them very easily. Oracle is getting hit from all angles. IBM is hammering from it from one side and we are hammering it from the other. They're trying, there's no doubt about that, but Oracle is a company in trouble.