IDC: IBM leading application deployment software market competition is still fierce
Author: Time: June 30, 2004 15:51:32 Source:
Computer World Network
Computer World Network IDC has shown this new data released on Tuesday. IBM continues to lead the 2003 application deployment software market, but with customers give up the large-scale host and OS / 400 system of IBM, this area competition Will get fierce. An analyst of the company's business process automation and deployment software, Denis, said that due to the natural phase of the middleware of the old large host type, I predict that it will have a fully open opportunity in the next few years. Dennis said in its report that the market in this type of software in 2003 increased by 4.4%, slightly more than $ 7 billion, and the market will continue to grow with similar speeds through 2008. IBM, BEA, and Oracle still inherited the 2002 Tree Status, and their market share was 35.6%, 11.5% and 5.9%, respectively. However, large-scale hosts and OS / 400 systems that make IBM have absolute advantage in this market will gradually eliminate by UNIX, Linux and Windows systems, providing opportunities for other vendors into the market. Dennis said that in terms of providing more modern middleware, IBM is not poor than any other manufacturers, but now the chain is open (the customer starts to eliminate its large host system), the market will become a more fair competitive market. Dennis said that due to the business only on UNIX and Linux platforms, like 2002, BEA has maintained a leading advantage in this market in 2003. Oracle shows a strong growth momentum, and the growth rate is 3 times the market, which drives the growth of the second edition of the ApplicationServer9i product. According to the 2003 sales calculation, open source software vendors JBoss is still "quite small." However, its free software, the business model of purchasing maintenance services masks the number of users who use their products. Sun is also "small inadvertent" in the market, and its market share has fallen over 2002. IDC also predicts that other factors that drive the application to deploy software market growth now include: Customers will continue to turn to full-featured platforms; the demand for automated deployment of business process will further increase. Author: Liu Yanqing compilation
