Less than 5% of Web users use RSS readers

Less than 5 percent of Internet users currently employ RSS readers, MediaPost says. That minority consists mainly of media and tech professionals, and bloggers who contend with information overload on a daily basis.

Published on: February 27, 2005 Department: Software

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65% of US households play video games, 38% have consoles, 40% are female
Malware rates up 278% in the first half of 2008
Global RDBMS market: Oracle - 44.3%, IBM - 21%, Microsoft - 15.8%
Medium-sized business enterprise applications market will grow to $80.3 bln by the end of 2012
24% of European households don’t have landlines
The Brazilian IT market will grow to $24 bln
Open source software to generate $4.83 bln by 2012
Video game sales reached $1.12 bln in May 2008
70% of girls say writing on a computer makes no difference in the quality of their writing, compared with 57% of boys
Casual games generate $2.25 bln annually
210 mln corporate mailboxes run on Exchange in 2008
Video game hardware and software sales up 47% in April 2008
Open-source databases to generate $270 mln in 2008
Enterprise CMS market to grow 12.6% in EMEA by 2012
NAS storage grew 15.8% in Q4 2007
Global storage software market in 2007
Global storage software market grew to $2.9 bln in Q4 2007
Global storage software revenues in Q4 2007
49 out of top 100 sites use Apache
31% of medium US businesses use SaaS
Game software sales up 21% in Germany in 2007
Software sales reached $3.3 bln in US in 2007
34% of North Americans use IM monthly
North American contact center applications earned $2.49 bln in 2006
Enterprise software to generate $190.7 bln in 2008
5.49 mln unique samples of malicious software in 2007
148 mln Americans viewed Web widgets in November 2007
US software sales up 15% in 2007
81% of Chinese Internet users have IM, 56.5% use e-mail
Firefox reached 28% in Europe by year-end 2007
Middle East and North Africa ERP market up 33%
Software solutions market in the Middle East and North Africa grew to 36% in 2007
100 mln copies of Vista sold in 2007
Firefox and IE market shares in December 2007
Asia Pacific SOA market to grow at 40% a year
20% of companies use wikis
IM attacks: 45% on MSN Messenger, 20% on Yahoo! IM, 19% on AIM
4.5 mln US households to run home servers by 2012
73.2% of Americans have not heard of Google Docs
70% of companies view SaaS as opportunity
European Web conferencing software generated $136.3 mln in 2006
Business process management suite market grew 80% in 2006
Indian small and medium businesses to spend $640 mln on packaged software in 2007
SAAS to grow at 22.1% a year
Portal, process and middleware software generated $3.8 bln in 2006
RDBMS market up 14.2% in 2006
IT ops management software up 11.4% in 2006
Global storage software market in Q1 2007
Open software generated $1.8 bln in 2006
EMEA storage management software to generate $3.2 bln in 2010
Business support systems up 6.8% in 2006
Data integration tools to generate $2.6 bln by 2011
19 mln software developers by 2010
$74 bln worth of acquisitions on enterprise apps market in 2004-2006
EMEA ERP market generated $8.1 bln in 2006
Worldwide storage software market in 2006
Worldwide storage software market in Q4 2006
25% of software developers have used MySQL
Only 30% of the time spent on BI will be spent on technology
Mapping apps generate $1.5 bln annually
33% of US medium businesses are using ERP solutions
Open source software to grow at 13.8% a year
Software as a service generated $6.3 bln in 2006
Top-selling software in 2006: MS Office, TurboTax, Norton Internet Security, Quickbooks
Spreadsheet management software market to generate $500 mln by 2011
Firefox share at 10.7% in November 2006
Asia-Pacific application networking to generate $296 mln
Digital creation software to generate $16 bln by 2010
Security compliance and control to generate $7.4 bln in 2006
Middle East and North African enterprise application software market generated $187 mln in 2005
Virtual machines generated $560 mln in 2005
Payroll application grew 4.1% in Western Europe in 2005
Number of software vendors offering subscriptions is down in 2006
36% of Americans use instant messaging at home, 0% growth from 2005
September 2006 browser market shares
8% of CRM software in 2005 was sold as a service
Russian enterprise application suite market grew 21% in 2005
25% of software revenues to be generated by SaaS by 2011
Business intelligence platforms up 15.5% in 2005
Adobe Acrobat Readers runs on 500 mln PCs
Storage software market up 8.6% in Q2 2006
MPEG encoders to generate $555 mln in 2010
Asia-Pacific applications market generated $1.26 bln in 2005
Antivirus sales generated $4 bln in 2005
Asia-Pacific applications market to reach $2.08 bln by 2010
EMEA CRM market up 10% in 2005
European mechanical apps market generated $2.3 bln in 2005
SCM apps generated $56.5 mln in China in Q2 2006
RDBMS market reached $267.6 mln in China in 2005
Remote access services to grow at 34% a year
Enterprise apps in Slovakia up 33% in 2005
Asia-Pacific business intelligence market generated $340 mln in 2005
Asia-Pacific EDA market generated $524.7 mln in 2005
US SMBs to pay $6 bln in software licenses in 2010
Storage management software to grow at 8.6% a year
Architecture and construction apps generated $1.46 bln in 2005
European EDA market generated $783.2 mln in 2005
Content management market leaders: EMC, FileNet, IBM, OpenText
Application acceleration to grow 37% in 2006
Browser shares in July 2006: IE - 75.88%, Firefox - 13.71%
Czech enterprise app market grew 24% in 2005
Content access tools generated $976 mln in 2005
Web conferencing to grow at 19.5% a year
EMEA DBMS market up 5.8% in 2005
URL filtering generated $300 mln in 2005
Asia-Pacific CRM market up 13.8% in 2005
Digital asset management to grow at 25% a year
Asia-Pacific content management market generated $127.6 mln in 2005
VMWare owns 55% of virtualization market
Operating environment software generated $1.86 bln in 2005 in Asia-Pacific
CRM software market up 13.7% in 2005
EMEA IT operation software up 14% in 2005
IM market in May 2006: MSN - 204 mln, Yahoo! - 78 mln, AIM - 34 mln, ICQ - 33.9 mln
Global ERP market up 5.2% in 2005
Database management systems software up 5.8% in Europe in 2005
Personal firewalls generated $160 mln in 2005
Business rule engine software to grow by 9.2% a year
Enterprise e-mail and calendars up 11% in 2005
Global storage management software up 8.8% in 2005
IT operation management software generated $9.9 bln in 2005
End-user spending on speech recognition software to generate $191 mln in 2010
Application acceleration generated $344 mln in Q1 2006
Global ERP market up 5.2% in 2005
Enterprise application suites in Central and Eastern Europe to grow at 18% a year
Global storage software market up 10.2% in Q1 2006
Application integration and middleware generated $8.5 bln in 2005
RDBMS market growth numbers
Open source software to replace 22% of commercial software in the next 5 years
Supply chain management software apps grew 2.6% annually
IT operations management software generated $9.9 bln in 2005
RDBMS market up 8.3% in 2005
Project and portfolio management software market up 6.7% in 2005
35% of software in the world is pirated
18% of drivers need navigation maps 20% of the time
RDBMS market up 9.4% in 2005
Firefox global share is at 11.79% in May 2006
20% of organizations use an open source business intelligence system
Russia has piracy rate of 87%
Western European market for analytic apps to grow at 10.3% a year
Asia-Pacific DBMS market to grow at 10.5% a year
Top buyers of vertical industry software: financial services, discrete manufacturing, communications
US SMB infrastructure software market to generate $13.3 bln in 2009
Asia-Pacific business intelligence market to reach $259.3 mln in 2009
In March 2006 Firefox broke the global 10% market share threshold
ERP market to grow at 7.7% a year
Product lifecycle management market to reach $12 bln in 2006
Top storage software vendors in 2005: EMC, Symantec, IBM
Storage software market leaders in Q4 2005: EMC, Symantec, IBM
Worldwide storage software market up 11.2% in Q4 2005
Workforce performance management to grow at 16.3% a year
Western European CRM market generated $2.549 bln in 2004
SAP owns 41% of Western European ERP market
Global business intelligence market will generate $2.5 bln in 2006
EMEA business intelligence software up 10% in 2004
Top-selling software titles in 2005: TurboTax, Norton AntiVirus, Spy Sweeper Tech Bench
Global browser shares: IE - 85.8%, Firefox - 11.2%
62% of marketers happy with their Web analytics package
Packaged software market to grow 11.1% in 2006 in Asia-Pacific
33% of Western European companies run open source databases
PC games sales down 14% in 2005
21 mln TurboTax users in 2005
Firefox reaches 20% share in Europe
Western European government GIS market to reach $280 mln by 2009
Top storage software vendors: EMC, Symantec, IBM
35% of software is pirated
EMEA supply chain management software market will generate $1 bln by 2009
Asia-Pacific DBMS sales up 15.4% in 2004
40% of helpdesk calls are related to password problems
EMEA content, communications and collaboration software reached $1.2 bln in 2004
20% of CRM revenues will come from mobile CRM in 2010
Global DBMS market will generate $13.2 bln by 2009
Wordlwide ERP market up 9.4% in 2004
Most popular open source technologies in the enterprise: Linux, Apache, Python, Tomcat
DRM software demand to grow at 106.1%% a year, reach $3.6 bln by 2008
Czech enterprise app market up 11.7% in 2005
Firefox share reaches 8.59% in September 2005
Firefox global share reached 11.5% in October 2005, USA share reached 14.1%
Enterprise management software to reach $3.7 bln in 2009 in EMEA
Mobile middleware to generate $1.4 bln by 2009
64% of IT managers evaluating CDP products
74% of employers building benefit portals value access to benefit policies
Enterprise management software up 19.7% in EMEA
Business intelligence services to reach $23.2 bln by 2009
Business intelligence reporting and analysis topped $5.5 bln in 2005
Electronic design automation software to reach $5.7 bln by 2009
17.6% of Asian-Pacific companies are using system management software
On-demand CRM market shares: Salesforce.com - 49.5%, RightNow - 13.5%
Application maintenance costs 11% of the app price
EMEA ERP market up 8% in 2004
Business intelligence software up 12% in 2004
Supply chain management software down 0.2% in EMEA
Mechanical apps to grow 13.5% in 2005
Speech recognition telephony to generate $173 mln in 2009
Financial compliance process management software to grow at 19% a year
Business intelligence market in India grew at 27.09% a year
37% of SOHO customers don’t buy IAS, since separate voice and data services present a good value
Russian enterprise application software sales up 53.4% in 2004
Application integration, middleware and portals to grow at 8.2% a year in Asia-Pacific
Accounting applications to generate $586.8 mln in 2009
CRM market up 10% in 2004, hosted CRM up 105%
$498 mln of educational software sold in 2000, $152 mln in 2004
Only 20% of IT executives are satisfied with CRM integration
Application delivery market up 23% in Q4 2004
Global ERP software sales up 9.4% in 2004
Supply chain app revenue up 3.3% in 2004
4.4 mln US households are editing digital movies
European architecture, engineering and construction software market up 16.8% in 2004
Application integration, middleware and portals grew 7.5% in 2004
2D and 3D scientific visualisation market to generate $10.7 bln in 2005
Mechanical apps generated $2.1 bln in 2004
Enterprise content management market to grow 10.6% a year
Asia-Pacific database management systems market to grow at 10.3% a year
64% of Canadian computer science students have pirated commercial software
Web conferencing and collaboration software up 14.2% in 2004
Content management system software sales to grow at 16.6% a year in Asia-Pacific
Operations support systems to generate $19.7 bln in 2005
Project and portfolio management software up 12.3% in 2004
Architecture, engineering and construction software grew 14.9% in 2004
ERP software revenues up 9.3% in 2004
CRM software market grew 8% in 2004
Linux relational database shares: Oracle - 81%, IBM - 17%
Location-based services to generate 274 mln euros in Europe in 2005
Application deployment software market leaders: IBM, BEA, Oracle
29% of companies purchased a solution for SarBox, 26% - for HIPAA
Services integration market to grow at 4.6% a year and reach $89.9 bln by 2009
Global CRM market is worth $3.2 bln in 2005
Only 10% of companies deployed identity management
Collaboration software to generate $1.1 bln by 2008
Firefox share up to 8.71% in June 2005
57% of teenagers support file sharing
Asia-Pacific business intelligence market topped $233.2 mln in 2004
Medium businesses to spend $16 bln on applications in 2005
Global software market to reach 214.8 bln euros in 2006, 270 bln in 2008
European app integration and middleware market to grow 7.4% in 2005
Polish enterprise application software market up 25.3% in 2004
Browser market share in May 2005: IE - 87.23%, Firefox - 8%
Western European supply chain management software market grew 6.5% in 2004
Asian-Pacific network management market generated $175.2 mln in 2004
Global storage software market up 14.9% in Q1 2005
Global software market worth 190.1 bln euros in 2002
Fortune 1000 app servers: 43.6% use ASP.NET, 12.2% use J2EE, 5.2% use PHP
Factory automation tools market grew 97% in 2004
30% of Finnish and 24% of German Web users prefer Firefox
A security vulnerability causes software company stock to fall by 0.63%
Israeli enterprise software market generated $52.14 mln in 2004
84% of profits in software industry are generated by top 15 companies
$386.4 mln of system management software sold in Asia-Pacific in 2004
Average Web user has 3 adware applications
CRM software to grow less than 5% in Western Europe
Relational database market generated $7.8 bln in 2004
Relational database sales reached $7.79 bln in 2004, Oracle and IBM tied for top spot
44% of UK small businesses ready to pay for hosted applications
Storage management generated $5.6 bln in 2004
Global software sales to reach 270 bln euros in 2008
Major obstacle to electronic health records: 55.5% name funding
Application management market generated $17.9 bln in 2004
Corporate intranet users name search the top priority
What online users installed: 98.3% have Flash, 87.6% have Java, 87.1% have Acrobat Reader
35% of PC software installed in 2004 was pirated
$4.2 bln spent on software as a service in 2004
IDC names largest business software ecosystems: SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft
Infrastructure software generated $6.7 bln in 2004
US Trade Representative published a list of countries with highest piracy rates
25 car models run Microsoft software
April 2005 browser market share: IE - 83.07%, Firefox - 10.28%
Application integration and middleware market worth $6.7 bln in 2004
Firefox preferred by 10% of business users
Electronic design automation revenues up 2.8% in 2004
191 buyouts in enterprise applications market within the past 15 months
Voice verification was a $45.9 mln market in 2004
Real-time business analytics market to be worth $10 bln in 2005
Firefox site visitors are 71% male
73% of software in India is pirated
Financial compliance software to generate $1.1 bln in 2005, $2 bln by 2009
Content management generated $2.93 bln in 2003
Firefox share at 6.17% in February 2005
Biller direct invoice processing to grow at 28% a year
Dynamic enterprise publishing software market to reach $1 bln by 2009
Will writing software up 63% in Q1 2005
31% of Australian PCs had pirated Microsoft software
Storage software market generated $7.9 bln in 2004, led by EMC, Veritas, CA, IBM
Russian IT solutions and infrastructure market up 29.1% in 2004
Relational database management systems sales up 11.6% in 2004
Unified messaging applications market generated $489.7 mln in 2003
Less than 5% of Web users use RSS readers
Core and predictive analytics to grow 7.7% and 8% a year
Microsoft Outlook has 60% of corporate e-mail client market
$213 bln will be spent on software in 2005
Nationwide electronic health network will cost $276 bln
$79 mln of software was pirated in December 2004
$1.54 bln will be spent on e-commerce platforms in 2008
CRM software market to grow at 9% a year
Single sign-on solutions to grow at 9.4% a year
60% of companies will use open source to some extent by the end of 2005
Top 20 companies own 60% of European solution services market
Pakistan software piracy rate reaches 83%
Electronic patient record solutions generated $1.1 bln in 2004
Enterprise resource management software generated $152.9 mln in China, $102.8 mln in Australia, $53.2 mln in Korea
Software piracy in UK is at 29%
2% of ERP apps run on Linux today, 15% to run on Linux in three years
Spending on speech-enabled self-service apps to double by 2008
Baltic enterprise application software market to grow 17% in 2004
70 mln download protected intellectual property, software piracy totals $20 bln
Corporate instant messaging leaders - Akonix, FaceTime, IBM, IMlogic, Jabber, Microsoft
Average corporate user accesses network remotely 8-24 times a month
Russian software market is estimated at $4.5-5 bln
Software market to generate $189 bln in 2004, led by Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP
Firefox has 3% of the browser market share, IE on decline
Philippine market for service solitions to reach $372 mln in 2007
$13.6 bln will be spent on healthcare applications by 2008
In 2006 45.7% of software will be subscription-based, 23% - license-based
Swedish software market to grow at 5.1% a year
Small business spending on CRM software grew 15% in 2003
34% of software sold in 2008 will be subscription-based
CAD software and services to generate $2.1 bln in 2004
Software bestsellers for August 2004
75% of companies plan to invest into service-oriented architectures in 2005
Embedded systems market to grow at 6.27% a year
24% of all games sold in Japan are for mobile devices
Software piracy in Ukraine is at 91%
48 vulnerabilities discovered in Windows software weekly
Asia-Pacific content management software market to grow at 14.9% till 2008
Software vendors spent $5 bln on partner programs in 2003
Arab Gulf storage software market grew 32% in 2004
UK interactive software market doubled in 6 years
Automatic identification shop-floor software to generate $135 mln by 2007
Chinese software market to double in the next 5 years
Feds will spend $5.6 bln on ERP in 2004
20% of IT costs is software
CRM software market will generate $11.4 bln by 2008
43% of open-source database users use them for mission-critical tasks
Video game sales up 1% in units, down 2.5% in revenues
79% of successful CRM launches took timing into account
PC gaming market declines 14.3% in 2003
Product data management market to increase 1% in 2004
37% of European software is pirated
60%, $29 bln of global software is pirated
80% of companies employing BPM get 15% ROI
Software deployment market grew 4% in 2003
Autralian CRM market netted $426 mln in 2003
90% of SMBs run Microsoft
Database market shares: Oracle - 40%, IBM - 31%, Microsoft - 12.1%
Database market grows 5.1%, Microsoft gains 11%
Search software market generated $617 mln in 2003
25% of critical F1K data is corrupted
Data backup software sales grow 7.9% in 2003
Chinese software market grew 24% in 2003
More than $1 bln of online games sold in 2003
Software sales to grow 7.4% in 2004, driven largely by Microsoft
XML, Web services popular among Western European banks
Clustering software to grow 8.5%
43% of software vendors and only 26% of customers prefer software subscriptions
Sun StarOffice installed on 30% of Linux desktops in Germany, 7% worldwide
Microsoft’s code sharing program reaches 1 millionth mark
Storage software market grew 17.7% in Q4 2003, 8% in 2003
82% of companies don’t take advantage of existing software apps
Top selling software products in 2003
India’s software industry to grow 23% this year
GBP 1.5 bln wasted on needless software
34% of IT spending will go towards supplier-customer interaction
Chinese software piracy rate is at 96%
China to lead EIP $29.4 mln industry
Merchant Traffic Manager market to grow at 42% yearly
Successful CRMs yield 16-1000% ROI
IT firms are the biggest pirates in UK
79% of Russian software is pirated
Speech Recognition Centers Reduce Call Time by 35%
CRM market to reach $10.8 bln in 2004
Malaysian software revenues grew 5.5% in 2003
IDC: Integration software market to grow to $5 bln by 2007
Storage software up 11.4% in Q1-Q3 2003
Winter Corp. publishes the largest databases
IDC: 87% of software in Russia is pirated
Gartner: Half of software companies dead by 2008
IDC on messaging applications market
Gartner: Virtualization software to triple in the next 5 years
CRM spending among small businesses
Rethink: IT priorities in EU
Gartner: IBM, EDS tops in services
IDC: Storage up in Q2
IDC: Chinese software market to grow 28% yearly
QNB: J2EE bigger than .NET in EU
Imaging technologies spending in finance and banking
Antivirus software to grow to $4.4B in 2007
Worldwide Analytic Applications Software Market to Reach Over $4.8 Billion in 2007

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