{"id":7067,"date":"2013-04-21T23:22:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T23:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/apr\/22\/microsoft-remains-top-software-vendor-cloud-increases-its-influence\/"},"modified":"2013-04-21T23:22:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T23:22:04","slug":"microsoft-remains-top-software-vendor-as-cloud-increases-its-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-remains-top-software-vendor-as-cloud-increases-its-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft remains top software vendor as cloud increases its influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Data Center (IDC) has released a report which reveals that Microsoft remains the largest software vendor globally through 2012 revenues and overall market share.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from the Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker put the Washington-based tech giant at a 17.1% market share, lower than its 2011 figure of 17.4% but still nearly twice as far ahead as its nearest competitors, IBM and Oracle.<\/p>\n<p>IBM has an 8.5% market share, compared to Oracle&rsquo;s 8.1%, with SAP and Symantec comprising the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the report provided further evidence that cloud computing is at the epicentre of enterprise growth.<\/p>\n<p>For many cloud-based segments, including data access, CRM applications and security software, their growth rate was double the rate for enterprise software overall.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the overall growth in the software market for 2012 was at 3.6%, less than half the overall growth of 2010 and 2011 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Data Center (IDC) has released a report which reveals that Microsoft remains the largest software vendor globally through 2012 revenues and overall market share.<br \/>\nFigures from the Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker put the Washingto&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}