Microsoft still dominates global software market Oracle Ultra IBM Second place

Beijing time April 1 Evening News, Gartner published a report in Monday, the global software industry in 2013 total revenue of 407.3 billion U.S. dollars, the year-on-year growth of about 5%. Microsoft is still the world's largest software company, with software revenues of about 65.7 billion dollars. Second, Oracle, which has a software business revenue of 29.6 billion dollars, has surpassed IBM in one fell swoop. IBM ranked third with software business revenue of 29.1 billion dollars. Chad Essing Chad Eschinger, Gartner analyst, said in a statement: This is the first time that Oracle has been in second place since we launched the list, with 2013 revenue accounting for 7.3% of the overall software industry's revenues. Joannie Molin Correa Joanne Morin Correia, a Gartner analyst, said: The Oracle database business grew strongly last year, the application software business started to recover, and the cloud computing business improved. SAP ranked fourth, with software revenues of 18.5 billion dollars last year. The fifth to tenth rankings are Symantec, EMC, HP, VMware, CA, and Salesforce.com. Of the 407.3 billion-dollar revenue, the top 10 software companies accounted for 172.7 billion dollars, while the remaining 234.6 billion dollars came from other companies. "In the past five years, there has been a major change in the global software market, and cloud computing has driven much of this change as more and more software vendors acquire or provide applications and infrastructure technology to support cloud computing and the IoT movement," Mr Correa said. (Li Ming)