| Worldwide Relational Database Market Share, Percent (Gartner Group) |
| Year |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
| IBM |
34.0% |
35.7% |
35.7% |
34.2% |
| Oracle |
39.7% |
33.4% |
32.6% |
33.9% |
| Microsoft |
14.3% |
17.7% |
18.7% |
20.0% |
| NCR |
2.4% |
2.7% |
2.8% |
3.0% |
| Others |
9.6% |
10.4% |
10.2% |
8.9% |
Table 3 SQL Server 2000 Grabbed 20 Percent of 2004 Database Market
Relational database market share data gathered by Gartner Group's Coleen Graham and reported by The UNIX Guardian (see Resources) show consistent market share gains for SQL Server 2000 in the 2001 to 2004 timeframe. Gartner's results for 2005, which won't include significant revenue from SQL Server 2005 licenses, are expected in late May or early June 2006.
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