And I thought professional whiners in cdi claim that Oracle is
more than IBM + Microsoft combined after IBM took over Informix.

Taken from today's WSJ article


Larry Ellison, chief executive of software giant Oracle Corp., has recently
suggested his company's acquisition of Sun Microsystems—a major player in Unix
servers—will spell trouble for IBM. But IBM executives say the Power7
announcement
only ensures their market-share lead in the Unix market; IDC, a research firm,
says IBM's share of the market for Unix systems has swelled to 39% today from
25%
in 2003.

dba6319 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:
Apples and pears/oranges.
You're comparing _databases_ on Unix (or rather DBMS's) with _hardware_
platforms running Unix.

--
Jeroen

<dba6319 (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

The article is referring to hardware sales for UNIX servers, not database
sales. Oracle is now in the hardware business by virtue of its purchase of
Sun Microsystems.