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page no.
fourteen
When the world’s information ran
on IBM mainframes, IBM databases
managed it all. But when the world
shifted to smaller computers and
the model known as client-server,
we ceded major portions of that
database leadership. The methodi-
cal comeback that has put us back
within striking distance of the lead in
the data management marketplace
started in the mid-’90s,
with massive
investments in the product
itself; then
we built marketing and
mindshare;
and finally we put in place
a dedi-
cated sales force. Through the
course of 2000, DB2 grew three
times faster than the industry on
Windows NT and UNIX platforms.
database software
ibm db2 software revenue
on unix and windows nt
platforms grew 73%in 2000.
major software vendors like
siebel,sap and peoplesoft
have selected db2 as their
preferred database.
in the past 18 months, approximately 1,000
companies have either replaced or chosen
ibm’s db2 database products over oracle.