Oracle recognised as Relational Database Market Share
SELECTION: According to market research firm IDC, Oracle is the
overall leader in the Worldwide Relational Database Management Systems
(RDBMS) software market.
IDC states in its latest report, "worldwide RDBMS 2006 Vendor Shares:
Preliminary Results for the Top Five Vendors" that Oracles' market share
in 2006 jumped 14.7 per cent over 2005 results and now stands at 44.4
per cent, well ahead of competing products.
The closest competitor holds 21.2 per cent market share. Overall, the
worldwide market for relational database management system grew by 14.3
per cent in 2006.
"IDC's findings show once again that Oracle is the industry's most
popular database by more than a two to one margin over its nearest
competitor", said Vice President of Database Product Marketing, Oracle
Williew Hardie. "Customers are consolidating their transactional and
business intelligence applications on low-cost server and storage grids
that are available 24 by 7 and can easily scale out on demand.
The self-managing features of Oracle Database make it easy for
organisations of all sizes to meet their service level objectives, and
turn data into a clear business advantage."
"Oracle was once again atop the RDBMS software market in 2006," said
Research Vice President, Application Development and Deployment, IDC
Carl Olofson, "Oracle's continued leadership may be in part due to the
demand we are seeing for database performance and available as well as
by falling unit prices for storage."
2006 marked a year of considerable milestone for Oracle Database 10g.
Oracle's free, starter database - Oracle Database 10g Express Edition -
became generally available in March 2006 and offers application
developers, database administrators (DBAs) and students the freedom to
develop and deploy application on their platform of choice.
Oracle re-enforced its commitment to offer a wide range of
programming interfaces that support the needs of different development
communities with the introduction of a variety of new development tools
for Microsoft. NET Framework and Oracle Database Web application. |
