Oracle No. 2 in Software Sales, Passing IBM in 13

摘要

Oracle has overtaken IBM as the world's second-largest software vendor, pulling in $29.6 billion in software revenue during 2013, according to Gartner. "Global trends around big data and analytics with business investment in database and cloud-based applications helped to drive Oracle's top-line growth," Gartner analyst Chad Eschinger said in a statement. Microsoft stayed in first place, at $65.7 billion in software sales, while IBM moved down to third with $29.1 billion. SAP remained in fourth place, at $18.5 billion, Gartner said. Symantec, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, VMware, CA Technologies and Sales-force.com rounded out the top 10.