Software Magazine has released its annual listing of the biggest 500 software (and services companies who write tons of code) vendors.
Several comments:
- Larry Ellison will likely talk about industry consolidation next week at Oracle OpenWorld. Well, the magazine still lists 500 companies as it did last year, and the year before. And it does not begin to list the various Office 2.0, SaaS, Open Source and other companies which have been spawned in the last couple of years.
- The fastest growing segments - security - 40% growth, HR 39%, Healthcare 23%, content management 22%.
- The bigger vendors - IBM, Oracle etc are reporting single digit growth in spite of their acquisition sprees. They are actually losing overall industry market share.
Lots of interesting small to mid-sized companies doing well in various sectors and geographies. Highly recommend getting yourself a copy...
