Need to know how many oracle database units were sold in 2003

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Clarification of Question by quanticus-ga on 21 Oct 2004 17:40 PDT

Thing is we are developing a database tool for Oracle and want to know
how the market might be. Every company that has Oracle installed is a
potential customer for us. So maybe the question should be : How many
companys do have Oracle db installed.

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Clarification of Question by quanticus-ga on 21 Oct 2004 17:41 PDT

Thing is we are developing a database tool for Oracle and want to know
how the market might be. Every company that has Oracle installed is a
potential customer for us. So maybe the question should be : How many
companys worldwide do have Oracle db installed.

Interesting question which I don't have an answer to but I would just
point out a couple of aspects of it which might be significant:

1. Firstly when you say 'Oracle' I'm assuming you're referring to the
Relational Database Management System of that name.

2. When you buy an Oracle licence the price you pay is dependent upon
a number of factors (such as how big a machine it is being used on).
So the number of units (or licenses) might be a bit misleading. If
Oracle sold 100 licenses and , for instance, Microsoft sold 100 SQL
Server licenses, the Oracle installations would typically be providing
service to many more users as Oracle is typically used on 'big'
machines (sorry I haven't put that very clearly but I hope you can
understand it).

3. It is possible to obtain a copy of Oracle for development use only
at no cost  - you might or might not wish to include these licenses in
your count.


In summary depending upon why you want this information the number of
'units' might be more or less useful measurement.

Hope you get an answer.

Best Wishes

R.

i contacted oracle and they said that all their financial information
is available here: http://www.oracle.com/investors

hope i helped,
hohoman90

sry bout that the site is actually:
http://www.oracle.com/investor

Thank you very much. That helps.
Rudolf