Let's talk about Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) ...
"Migrating a SAP ERP system to Microsoft® SQL
Server can yield net benefits of $850K for a medium-size organization and $10
million for a large organization, all in a payback period of 9 to 15 months".
Wipro’s study
reveals how migration to Microsoft® SQL Server® Pays Big Dividends for SAP/ERP
Customers
Wipro Technologies. March 18, 2008.
"The DBMS market has consolidated to three major
vendors - IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle - that dominate more than 88% of the
market."
The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems,Q2 2009
by Noel Yuhanna. Forrester Research, Inc. June 30, 2009.
"Forrester estimates that the DBMS market will grow at 8% annually through 2012
as enterprises deploy new applications, expand existing ones, and deal with
increasing data volume"
The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems,Q2 2009
by Noel Yuhanna. Forrester Research, Inc. June 30, 2009.
"Forrester estimates the current database market to be $27 billion - including
new database licenses, technical support, services, and consulting - and it is
likely to grow to $32 billion by 2013"
The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems,Q2 2009
by Noel Yuhanna. Forrester Research, Inc. June 30, 2009.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 ... "with high scores in database programmability,
security, availability, and application/data integration"
The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems,Q2 2009
by Noel Yuhanna. Forrester Research, Inc. June 30, 2009.
"... for applications that require the most-comprehensive DBMS features and
functionality, look at Oracle, IBM DB2 for LUW, Microsoft SQL Server, and
Sybase."
The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems,Q2 2009
by Noel Yuhanna. Forrester Research, Inc. June 30, 2009.
"Microsoft: The most aggressive DBMS vendor with a strong road map. Microsoft
has done reasonably well in the database business but over the past three years
has shown increasing focus and commitment to going after the enterprise market.
SQL Server 2005 and, more recently, SQL Server 2008 have enabled Microsoft to
take market share in moderately sized to large enterprises, delivering good
performance, scalability, security, and availability functionality. Five years
ago, hardly any enterprises ran multiterabyte databases with SQL Server to
support critical applications. Today, hundreds of enterprises are running
10-terabyte and larger transactional SQL Server databases."
The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems,Q2 2009
by Noel Yuhanna. Forrester Research, Inc. June 30, 2009.
"Suitability: SQL Server is known for its easy-to-use, simplified enterprise
DBMS and for delivering the best price-performance for most business
applications. Many enterprises like the breadth and depth of the packaged
applications SQL Server supports across various industries. In addition, SQL
Server 2008 offers strong support for unstructured and semistructured data.
Enterprises that want a cost-effective and easy-to-use enterprise DBMS should
look at SQLnServer."
The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems,Q2 2009
by Noel Yuhanna. Forrester Research, Inc. June 30, 2009.
Comparing SQL Server 2008 to IBM DB2 9.5
http://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/sqlserver/Comparing_SQL_Server2008_and_IBM_DB2_Whitepaper.pdf.
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