Gartner 2011 Worldwide RDBMS Market Share Reports 48.8% revenue share for Oracle (*)

Gartner has published their market share numbers for 2011 based on total software revenues.

 According to Gartner, Oracle:

• is #1 in worldwide RDBMS software revenue share
• holds more revenue share than its seven closest competitors combined
• grew at 18.0%, exceeding both the industry average (16.3%) and the growth rates of its closest competitors.

(*) Source: Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide 2011 by Colleen Graham, Joanne Correia, David Coyle, Fabrizio Biscotti, Matthew Cheung, Ruggero Contu, Yanna Dharmasthira, Tom Eid, Chad Eschinger, Bianca Granetto, Hai Hong Swinehart, Sharon Mertz, Chris Pang, Asheesh Raina, Dan Sommer, Bhavish Sood, Marianne D'Aquila, Laurie Wurster and Jie Zhang. - March 29, 2012