MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Database management software (DBMS) has become a pertinent tool for staying ahead of the competition in the technological world. DBMSs have become a key component of a company's data management solution.
According to new, strategic research by Frost & Sullivan (www.frost.com), World Client/Server DBMS Market, the market reached an astounding $5 billion in 1998 an 18 percent increase over 1997 revenues. Many of the key opportunities for growth in the DBMS market are centered around the Internet. The Internet caused an explosion of data in terms of Web content, and in the future, many business practices, including business-to-business EDI, e-commerce, and e-business will utilize Internet technologies, compounding the need for efficient storage and management software.
The majority of DBMS software revenues are generated in North America and Europe, the first-and second-largest markets, respectively. DBMS vendors are expecting robust growth in both of these markets. The Asia Pacific region and the rest of the world are much smaller markets, but they are expected to comprise larger shares of the world market by the end of the forecast period in 2005.
The total database market is split into two categories: Relational databases and object-oriented databases (RDBMS and ODBMS, respectively). The RDBMS market comprised just under 98 percent of the total DBMS software market in 1998 in terms of revenues. RDBMS software will continue to occupy the majority of the total market throughout the forecast period.
Factors that will drive the RDBMS market include the growth of the Internet, explosive interest in e-business, and demand for improved customer information. On the other hand, market restraints include intense price competition, limited opportunities due to the high expense of changing vendors and growing market saturation in the United States and Europe.
The ODBMS market was much smaller than the RDBMS market in 1998, accounting for only 3 percent of the total DBMS market. However, the ODBMS market is expected to pick up the pace throughout the forecast period. Revenues in this segment totaled $96 million in 1998, a 17 percent increase over 1997.
Factors that are expected to drive the ODBMS market are the growth of the Internet, growth of Java-based applications and the emergence of component architectures. The factors that are projected to slow this market are the expanding object-relational technologies, the fact that ODBMS software is not yet widely accepted and the lack of object-oriented programmers.
The principal threat to participants in the overall DBMS market is saturation. This is especially true in the RDBMS market. Although the growth of the Internet has created many new application areas for RDBMS vendors, there is already a huge installed base of existing systems. In 1999, Y2K will be an issue that impacts the DBMS market.
"Further developments in object technology will continue to influence future developments in database technology. Price/performance ratios have been declining due to the spread of Windows NT and the subsequent growth of the NT DBMS market " says Frost & Sullivan Analyst Nelson Shim. Competition has also been a major factor impacting the decline in price/performance ratios.
Frost & Sullivan present Market Engineering Awards to the DBMS industry to recognize companies that have worked hard to make a positive contribution to the market.
The 1998 Market Engineering Leadership Award goes to Oracle Corporation, which was able to maintain their position as the market leader and succeeded in gaining market share. Contributing factors include aggressive marketing in the Windows NT database market, successfully building excitement for their release of Oracle8i and expanding their family of products and applications for their database.
The 1998 Marketing Strategy Award goes to Object Design for achieving spectacular growth, thus becoming the market leader, by successfully marketing themselves as an XML and Web content management company, while maintaining success in traditional ODBMS markets.
The 1998 Market Engineering Competitive Strategy Award goes to Microsoft Corporation for their November 1998 release of SQL Server 7.0, which propelled them into the enterprise database market. Some of the key factors to their success included the decision to support services such as Microsoft OLAP and Microsoft Repository, and extensive use and support for value added resellers (VARs) Participants in this market include: ACI US, Inc., ADMINS Inc., Allied Computer Service, Answer Software Corporation, Aonix, Ardent Software Inc., askSam Systems, Cincom Systems Inc., Compaq Computer Corporation, Computer Associates International Inc., Corel Corporation, Data Access Corporation, EMPRESS Software Inc., EZX Corporation, FFE Software Inc., FileTek Inc., IBM Corporation, Informix Software Inc., Inprise Corporation, Leapfrog Technologies Inc., Macon Systems Inc., MATISSE Software, MediaWay Inc., Micro Data Base Systems Inc., MicroQuill Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Murphy Software, NCR Corporation, Neologic Systems Inc., Object Design Inc., Objectivity Inc., ONTOS Inc., Oracle Corporation, Pervasive Software Inc., Pick Systems, POET Software Corporation, Progress Software Corporation, ProVUE Development Corporation, Revelation Software, Software AG Americas Inc., Sybase Inc., UNIFY Corporation and Versant Object Technology Corporation.
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World/Client/Server/N-Tier DBMS Software Market
Report: 5903-70 Date: May, 1999 Price: $3,450
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