Hey Niall, Thanks for pointing out that article! it's expensive to a person, however, not for a company. I’ll forward the link and let him make the decision. At least, they know where they could get the thorough information. Thanks again! Best Regards, Betty Huang From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 2012年2月27日 16:31 To: Huang, Betty Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; GiantPanda@xxxxxxx Subject: Re: oracle platform statistics http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=232122 - its a market analysis product so I'd say the price was quite reasonable really. x86-64 is a pretty big market share, probably over 50% by now. 2012/2/27 <Betty.Huang@xxxxxxx> Wow, that’s very expensive… this is just a question from my ex-colleague. He’d like to have some understanding about the opportunities for Oracle database to run on x86 servers. Actually, based on the feedbacks I got so far, it looks like x86 would be a trend for customer to run their production database on… What’s your opinion on this? Thanks and Best Regards, Betty Huang From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 2012年2月25日 1:31 To: Huang, Betty Cc: GiantPanda@xxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: oracle platform statistics Hi Betty I don't have up to date information (IDC do produce it each year but it costs several thousand dollars to get a copy - possibly EMC will have something in your market research dept). Never the less I was able to discover that in 2007 ( somewhat old now) 1/3rd of Oracle's database revenue came from Windows. The rest was split IIRC approx 50% UNIX, 50% Linux (the focus of my presentation was Oracle on Windows so I didn't keep the rest of the info. 2012/2/21 <Betty.Huang@xxxxxxx> Hi Ingrid, Thanks for the quick response, this is very helpful. Is there a further subdivision on UNIX? Could you please point me to this presentation if it's public? Thanks and Best Regards, Betty Huang -----Original Message----- From: Ingrid Voigt [mailto:GiantPanda@xxxxxxx] Sent: 2012年2月21日 9:00 To: Huang, Betty Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: oracle platform statistics Hi, according to a 2011 DOAG presentation: 53% of all OTN downloads (of the database server) are Windows, 26% Unix, 19% Linux. Best regards Ingrid On 21.02.2012 01:48, Betty.Huang@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Yesterday, I've got a question from someone: what's the percentage of > different OS platforms Oracle runs on? Like about what percentage > Oracle runs on Linux, what percentage on HP-UX, etc... he needs a > rough statistics. > > I googled and only find this one: > http://dba-oracle.com/t_solaris_hpux_aix_linux_windows.htm > > It says that in IOUG 2006 Oracle survey, Solaris is the most popular > one, following Windows and Linux, then HP-UX, then AIX. Since this > survey is quite old, I'd like to ask if anyone happened to have some > updated information about this? > > Thanks for your time! > > Thanks and Best Regards, Betty > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l