Whole Lotta Yuan

Beijing Daily reports, this morning, that -- according to the recently-released 2006 Third Quarter Data Test for the Chinese Database Software Market -- China's commercial database market reached 463 million yuan (about $59 million USD), a 7.53 percent increase from the previous quarter.

Analyst Liang Xingang of Yiguan International says that "international software magnates" (read: "Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and Sybase") still hold 96 percent of this market. Says Liang: "Domestically made databases are used mainly in ministries and commissions involved in national defense and other classified sectors, the aviation industry and local governments."

Don't you love "international software magnates?" I hope nobody's surprised when they announce a national initiative (e.g., "Boldly Build World-Class SQL Engine") to twist those numbers.

Posted by John Jainschigg at 10:51 AM  Permalink