Consolidation in Application Software space – it is scary!
Tags: application software, Software industry, software innovation, software valuation, software vendor consolidation
Whenever I look at the applications software market, I get the scary feeling that most small and mid-sized application software vendors would be gobbled up by the larger ones. During one of my conversations with a pretty experienced and learned person in the industry, he was mentioning that there would be space for probably 10 software companies in the world in the long run.
I assumed that the ten companies he was mentioning would be Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, HP, Adobe, Nintendo, Symantec, EMC and CA. These would anyway acquire the remaining players.
The challenges that application software vendors face are:
A. There … Continue Reading