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Technology: Middleware market leaders
Gartner released their numbers about the top application and middleware software (AIM) vendors last week. Based on their findings, they rank IBM as number one in marketshare, standing somewhere at around 29 percent, nearly three times any of the competitors.
Runners-up include BEA Systems at 9.3 percent and Oracle at 8.5 percent. The numbers provide good reason for why Oracle pursued and purchased BEA Systems. Their combined forces are still dwarfed by IBM’s middleware, but the combination of Oracle and BEA can become more of a competitive force.
Vendors 4 and 5 in the AIM space are Software AG and Microsoft.
Average growth in the AIM market in 2007 was 12.9 percent which is a little hard to understand, since IBM grew at 15.1 percent, Software AG came in at a whopping 107 percent, and Microsoft reported 42 percent.
Also affecting the market is Oracle’s recent changes to pricing. Last week Oracle raised prices to around 15 to 20 percent on all Oracle product sold in the US and Europe. For example, the Oracle Standard Edition Database jumped from $15,000 to $17,500, and the price of the Enterprise version rose from $40,000 to $47,500.
With news like that, Open Source begins to look pretty attractive.
