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From: robinson@durham.med.unc.edu (Gerard A. Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Most Commonly used database for Unix
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Date: 19 Feb 91 15:33:05 GMT
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>In article <29695@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>>In article <3389@dali> icsg8032@nero.cs.montana.edu (Narayan) writes:
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>>I am curious to know, which database software is most commonly used for Unix.
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>If I'm not mistaken, the top honors now goes to Oracle.
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Hmmm, I'd actually think INGRES, as it is bundled in both Ultrix 4.x and
SCO's Open Desktop product.  This would of course depend upon how successful
each has been at marketing their respective products :-) It would, of course,
also depend upon, whether one uses figures based on dollar volume or on
number of installations.  This is often the case for workstation percentages
where Sun has 32%, and HP 26% (or thereabouts) of the dollar volume, but 
the number of workstations shipped actually skews these numbers more to the
40% vs. 20% range.  The difference in measurement schemes would definitely
affect the answer to this question.  Anyone got any real numbers on this?

Gerard Robinson