eBusiness is a data intensive business.

At the core of it all is a data base:

• Oracle - 31.1% market share and holding

• IBM DB2 - 29.9% market share and holding

• Microsoft SQL -  13.1% and growing (22% growth in 1999)

•     (source: Gartner group)

implications: Microsoft is growing at the expense of the small guys.

eBusiness: The Hope, the Hype, the Power, the Pain 

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