> From: Cedric Fontaine > I'm looking for some official statistics about multivalue market and > users in the world. Is there anything from IBM or any other vendor?
I'll go on a limb and say you probably will never get "official" statistics from any MV vendor. It's simply not in their interest to publish numbers unless they're competitive with SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, etc. In boasting numbers, most MV vendors will only show how much market share they don't have with their MV competition, and summing up the numbers will (almost certainly) show how small a share MV has in the larger market. No matter how you slice it, it would be difficult for any company to benefit from publishing numbers - though of course everyone else has a lot to gain from competitors posting their numbers. It's not as easy as it used to be to discuss MV in terms of penetration into specific vertical markets like manufacturing or medical applications. My advice would be to avoid numbers and simply talk about capabilities, consistency and longevity in dynamic markets, etc. You could also cite the size of the primary companies that have MV products: IBM, InterSystems, and Northgate IS. I don't think the annual revenue of the others is significant enough to mention. As to statistics from sources other than the MV vendors themselves, Spectrum is the only centralized authority in our industry, but all they can do is tell you how many companies they have in their subscription database. Since most MV VARs (really unfortunate) shelter their end-user base from "the community", including Spectrum Magazine and conferences, once can only guess as to what percentage of the overall total is represented by the Spectrum database, and that still doesn't tell you how many users per site there are. If you don't mind making major guesses, I think Spectrum would be the best place to start to get some base numbers. 2 devaluated cents Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
