In that closely watched space, Oracle dominates with 69.1 percent share, up 300 percent year over year, growth that Gartner attributes partly to inclusion of "extras" such as the Oracle 9i RAC clustering, which carries an additional charge. IBM Linux share grew 27.5 percent to 28.5 percent share.
"We're seeing that Linux is pulling mostly from Unix sales," said Gartner analyst Colleen Graham. "Oracle's huge growth is coming from their own Unix base. They're telling customers it's more cost-effective to put Oracle on a Linux cluster and pay for RAC than on a big Unix box," she said.
The larger Windows segment grew 4 percent this year vs. 1 percent last year. Not surprisingly, Microsoft led in this space with 47.4 percent share, up 11.1 percent year over year. Oracle placed second with 25.3 percent share, up 2.1 percent, and IBM's overall share (including Informix offerings) fell 11.7 percent. Sybase share fell 2.8 percent to 3.2 percent of the total Windows base. Graham said the Windows market is Microsoft's to lose. "RDBMS on Windows is a very tough sale for anyone but Microsoft," she said.
Tom Rizzo, director of product management at Microsoft, said the company was pleased with the numbers for both Windows overall as a platform and for SQL Server.
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