It's quite possible this data correlates with data about popularity of enterprise database technologies. Microsoft SQL Server/Active Directory "kill it" in ye

It's quite possible this data correlates with data about popularity of enterprise database technologies. Microsoft SQL Server/Active Directory "kill it" in ye olde enterprise settings - and for good reasons too. For example, their software has been affordable for smaller, evolving departments (I know they were cheapest about a decade ago among the proprietary DBMS stacks before they revised SQL Server licence fees post 2008R2 etc), but most importantly they have the most cohesive development, deployment and cloud integration tools for the typical enterprise. Visual Studio and SQL Server tooling have let veteran Microsoft users experience the same tools for Azure as though nothing has changed! This was a killer move from Satya Nadela's team. Balmer's "Developers, developers, developers ... " strategy is still paying dividends for this company.