Who are dominating the Enterprise IT industry?
Industry incumbent Enterprise products Company type 2008 (mln) 2008 employees Competitors JBoss Application Server Subsidiary of Red Hat $5.5 57 IBM, Oracle, Sun SAP ERP, BI, CRM, SCM Main HQ Germany $14,957 58,610 IBM, Oracle, Microsoft Microsoft ERP, CRM, O/S Main HQ U.S.A. Redmond $60,420 91,000 IBM, Oracle, Google Sun Microsys. App. server, Java, Chips, Servers, O/S Main HQ U.S.A. Santa Clara $13,880 34,900 IBM, HP, Microsoft Oracle CRM, BI, ERP, SCM Main HQ U.S.A. Redwood $22,430 84,233 IBM, SAP, Microsoft Hewlett Packard BI, Storage, Servers, Networking eq.... Main HQ U.S.A. Palo Alto $118,364 321,000 IBM, Canon, Dell IBM BI, Storage, servers Main HQ U.S.A. $103,630 426,900 Microsoft, HP
A great deal of enterprise software is now available through the free software movement, notably operating systems, web servers and databases.
Many other types of enterprise software are also being introduced, such as application servers, portal servers, and even productivity software that is well suited for large-scale adoption by enterprises. While most open source software is available freely for use and further development, several companies provide enterprises with open source enterprise software for free and charge for software maintenance, modifications, support and additional functionality.
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