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• Virtual economies employ 400,000 people in 2008
• PC gaming generated $10.7 bln in 2007
• Video game hardware and software sales up 28% in July 2008
• EAS market in the Czech Republic declined 4.5% YTY in 2007
• VMware has 82% share of market of virtualized servers, Microsoft has 13%
• RDBMS market reached $18.8 bln in 2007
• Virtualization growth rising from 46% in 2007 to 54% in 2008
• Location-based mobile social networking to generate $3.3 bln by 2012
• 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

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