state of the database nation
A Gartner/IDC report summarising the state of the database market in 2005 contains some interesting nuggets of information.
The database market is still growing at 9.4% (which surprised me a little).
OpenSource databases account for less than 1% of the market but are growing fast (47%).
The Linux platform (thanks mainly to Oracle) is showing the strongest growth (84%).
Despite these two statements of fact, Oracle are not perturbed by the threat of OpenSource (pass the salt cellar).
Market share:
- Oracle - 44.6%
- IBM - 21.4%
- Microsoft - 16.8%
- OpenSource (MySQL, Ingres) - 1%
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