High revenue streams is an indication of less competition. Try and move from Oracle to DB2 or DB2 to SQL Server and compare that with moving from U2. Moving SQL databases are not easy that is why you don't see a lot of movement. The big issue is not just the database, it is the move of the application talking to the database. The RDBMs providers can charge higher rates as it is difficult to move. Try that with UniVerse/Unidata and there will be a mass move to jbase, cache or someone else. That is what I mean by competitive, that I cannot be held to ransom by my supplier.
Regards David Jordan >I have to disagree with this statement. There are many RDMS providers >out there with very large revenue streams. And if you count Open Source >implementations such as MySQL or PostgreSQL you have quite a large >playing field (and there are other Open Source RDBMs, just MySQL and >PostgreSQL have the lion's share). >The revenue generated from the MV databases has never come close to >Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MS SQL Server. There are many reasons for this, >but to say that MV market has more competitive providers is not true and >certainly the revenue has never come close to the traditional RDBMs >products. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
