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Channel Best-Sellers: Software
12:00 AM EST Fri. Mar. 09, 2007
From the March 12, 2007 issue of CRN
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BY BARBARA DARROW
The vendor increased its share by 4.4 percentage points to a 47.3 percent share last calendar year. The NPD figures cover the U.S. dollar volume of databases sold through distributors, including the Global Technology Distribution Council. Microsoft's share also grew the fastest among the Top 5 best-sellers. The current SQL Server 2005 debuted in November of that year, so last year probably saw a lot of upgrade activity.
The share of the No. 2 player, IBM, slipped 4.2 percentage points to 26.4 percent of the database dollar volume flowing through distribution in 2006, NPD reports. The No. 3 player, Oracle, saw its share rise to 21.5 percent of the dollar volume. That is probably no surprise: SQL Server has been hot in its own right and Microsoft has always been channel-oriented, where both Oracle and IBM continue to sell plenty of databases direct.
"My belief is that if you get your resume read, the No. 1 thing you want to have on it is SQL Server experience and No. 2, Oracle," said Lee Blackstone, CEO of Blackstone & Cullen, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based solution provider that does a lot of database work, most of it in the Microsoft camp.
Mike Drips, an independent technology consultant based in Folsom, Calif., said SQL Server wins deals where cost is an issue, despite the fact that both IBM and Oracle have offered repackaged and less costly versions of their databases for some time.
"The entry point is less expensive with SQL Server than with Oracle or IBM. Although it may not be technically superior, it's easier to get into. If you're an enterprise, you'll look at Oracle and IBM but then it all comes down to bucks and SQL Server," Drips said.
The Distributor Track numbers show Filemaker at No. 4, with share falling slightly to 4.1 percent of the dollar volume. And Sybase, which has become a niche player but with residual strength in financial services industries, logs in at the fifth slot, with its 2006 share falling to 0.2 percent from 0.3 percent in 2005.
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Relational Databases
Top 5 Best-Sellers*
* RANKING BASED ON 2006 REVENUE SHARE; HIGHLIGHTED VENDOR GAINED GREATEST SHARE FROM 2005 TO 2006 SOURCE: THE NPD GROUP/DISTRIBUTOR TRACK (INCLUDES GTDC DATA) |
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