Folks,
I found this part of this article interesting:
http://sdtimes.com/news/105/story15.htm
"Top Deployed Databases. When respondents were asked which databases were in
use at their company, the lion's share went to Microsoft, with 78 percent
saying that SQL Server was deployed. It was followed closely by Oracle, at 55
percent, and surprisingly by MySQL, at 33 percent. Next were IBM's DB2, at 22
percent; Sybase, at 15 percent; and PostgreSQL, at 8 percent. Readers were
presented with a field of 14 major databases for this question.
Database for Current Project. The same list of databases was used for a
related question, which asked which specific database was used on the
respondent's current or most recent project. The top rankings were similar,
with Microsoft at the top with SQL Server, at 57 percent; followed by Oracle,
at 39 percent; MySQL, at 16 percent; and DB2, at 11 percent. PostgreSQL, at 5
percent, however, edged out Sybase, at 4 percent, for the fifth position."
So among SD Times 1,000 subscribers, we're the 4th or 5th most popular
database, and between 5% and 8% of the market. This is a useful stat to
throw at people. 5-8% of the market may not seem like much, but it's better
than Apple is doing in the PC market, and means potentially tens of thousands
of production installations.
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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco