The analysts publish their DBMS data at midyear, so the latest figures available are for 2006. We have omitted what Terada and Sybase, each with about 3 percent of the market, as well as all smaller vendors.
| VENDOR | Gartner | IDC | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SALES | SHARE | GROWTH RATE | SALES | SHARE | GROWTH RATE | |
| Oracle | $7.2 B | 47% | 15% | $7.3 B | 44% | 15% |
| IBM | $3.2 B | 21% | 8% | $3.4 B | 21% | 12% |
| Microsoft | $2.7 B | 17% | 28% | $3.0 B | 19% | 25% |