06 years three trends in the global software market will become more and more popular open source

On January 2nd news, industry analysts, in 2006 before the global software industry is reviewed, and pointed out that this year, the global software industry has three main trends: mergers and acquisitions war continues, software as a service to provide the trend more obvious, in addition, open source software will be more popular.

In the past 2005, for the software industry can be regarded as a merger". After the acquisition of PeopleSoft Oracle for $10 billion 500 million, and have carried out dozens of mergers and acquisitions. In addition, BEA has acquired 6 companies, SAP has acquired 10 companies, while IBM and CISCO are not a sign of weakness. According to Thomsen financial statistics show that in 2005 the global software industry, a total of 656 M & a events. This year, Microsoft and SAP will continue to be staged mergers and acquisitions war. At the same time, some private enterprises will join the tide of mergers and acquisitions.

In 2005, Salesforce and Zimbra and other companies through the product as a service to provide, has been SAP and Oracle and other large companies pose a threat. Even the software empire Microsoft can not be avoided, in November 1st launched the Windows Live and Office Live and other online services. This year, this trend will be strengthened.

Ingres's chief technology officer, Dave Dargo, said: "in the past five years, open source software has been transformed from an experimental product to a. More and more companies are not open source software, thus gaining a place in the market." Due to the use of Oracle, SAP and IBM software companies need to pay a certain fee, I believe this year will be more open source software.