Palm split its hardware and software divisions into separate firms and has failed to gain significant software share on non-Palm gadgets.
It has 95% market share in the productivity software market, 75% share in the operating system market and approximately 75% share in the server software market.
We store our files online, use collaboration software and share calendars and contacts on the web.
The Mac uses only plug-in memory modules, its operating system automatically recognizes all the memory present, and all Mac software can share it.
Adobe saw a decline of around 5 percentage points in 2009 in its creative software market share caused by IT budget cuts and reduced advertising budgets by companies.
The maker of the bike-share software, PBSC Urban Solutions, Inc. in Montreal, didn't return a message seeking comment.
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Developers can snap these together and write and share software on top.
Notably, Oracle is already the dominant player in the database software market with a share of around 50%.
The code has been put on the CodePlex website so developers can freely download and share the software.
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In addition, content-sharing software lets users wirelessly share videos, photos, and music from other DLNA-enabled devices to then enjoy on the notebook.
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It is difficult to share a software feature and harder still to excite enthusiasm among a group of friends about a service like health tracking.
Even PowerPoint software developers do their share of doodling.
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For each of its media partners, ClickFuel generates revenues from some combination of an enterprise licensing fee, a charge based on the number of SMBs that use the software, and a share of the revenues from the online advertising.
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As Gillian also heard in compiling the Business Scotland programme, there are significant success stories in the sector - the rapid growth of Skyscanner, based in central Edinburgh and using some very smart software to eat up share of the vast online airline ticket booking market.
Adobe Systems has around 43% market share in creative software market globally as of 2009.
Oracle is the largest player in the database software market with a market share of close to 50%.
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One application, called Shibboleth, is a piece of open source software that enables users to share restricted online resources.
Currency concerns even prompted the firm to pare back its revenue and earnings per share estimates for software maker Oracle.
Microsoft Office is the dominant player in the productivity software market with an estimated share of around 95% as of 2009.
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Following PeopleSoft's warning, Morgan Stanley cut its earnings estimate for the provider of enterprise application software to 13 cents per share from 20 cents.
This is expected to rise from 8% of Indian sales now to about 30% in 2010, while software-development's share will fall from 55% to 39%.
Share of enterprise software provider Informatica are trading higher this morning after Roth Capital analyst Nathan Schneiderman lifted his rating on the stock to Buy from Neutral, asserting that a recent sell-off was overdone.
One crucial difference, of course: Red Hat's business is built around software that users are free to share with one another.
The launch of Office 365 is a major step by Microsoft which would help it retain its overall market share in the productivity software market.
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Most enterprise software giants have started offering cloud-based, on-demand versions of their software, aiming to capture market share in the rapidly growing cloud computing market.
After a trial and an appeal, the Justice Department and the company reached a settlement in which Microsoft agreed to share some of its software code with competitors.
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It competes primarily with heavyweights like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM in enterprise software, and has significant market share in the ERP, CRM, BI and database markets.
On April 4th it emerged that federal prosecutors in New Jersey are examining how software applications for smartphones collect and share data, amid suspicions that privacy laws have been broken in some cases.
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And because of the program's complexity, even the best produce their share of bug-ridden software.
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