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I love that chart on the second to last page. The axis are labeled "Completeness of vision" and "Ability to execute".

Oracle:

  Vision: Screw customers over and get their money.

  Execution: Very probable, customers don't run fast enough.

It's kind of funny that they included that when Microsoft is beating them on both axes (and with a far lower TCO).

I have this feeling that Microsoft is going to be announcing some really big things in the data management area in the next 12 months.

This is Gartner's famous "Magic Quadrant".

Which is largely used for propaganda and often doesn't exactly mean very much.

The Magic Quadrant is just the eye-catching bit of what is generally a fairly substantial (15,000-25,000 word) report.

You can download the whole report from Microsoft (not surprising, since it came out top):

https://info.microsoft.com/CO-SQL-CNTNT-FY16-09Sep-14-MQOper...

I've posted a big version of the Magic Quadrant here: http://imgur.com/3qFwPd6

I'm assuming Oracle is in the lower left?

Gartner identifies Micrsoft and Oracle as the leaders on the top right.

Mongo, EnterpriseDB and Redisnare in the upper right as well.

While they did add EnterpriseDB, they left out Postgresql.

It also seems like the chart is stuffed with a ton of databases you wouldn't even consider, just to make it look like they are more ahead than is really the case. It's not that the databases in the lower-left aren't any good, they just fulfill very different roles.

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