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I have distilled a revenue table from a Software Magazine report. It would be swell if someone could make a nice pie chart out of it. Mikeblas 10:49, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
This sentence bothers me, and i'm a total Microsoft fanboy: "As of 2006, the client software industry is dominated by Microsoft." It doesn't sound like a NPOV, especially when there's no source citation, and there's no context behind the statement. It's rather subjective since "dominating" can mean different things. And what's the significance of the year 2006? Please remove this sentence, or cite it. Thx. --0xDEADC0DE (talk) 22:24, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Maybe if this article gets expanded id won't need to be merged, but from my point of view, it seems highely unlikely that this will happen.Drydom Any thoughts? 05:44, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
As it stands, this article is so misleading that it raises doubts about whether it should be deleted. It is nothing like B-Class on any objective scale. - Pointillist (talk) 00:38, 12 June 2008 (UTC). For example:
Until two years ago, Software Magazine was a US list. Only US revenues could be entered. Hence SAP entered only its US revenues at the time. At the moment their list is becoming more international and worldwide revenues can be entered. Still, as Software Magazine is sold in the US mostly, non-US software companies do not know it and do not seek listing in the Software 500. BalderV (talk) 14:37, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Description of Digital Equipment (DEC) being associated with microcomputers is misleading unless Wikipedia defines microcomputers different than any other place I've ever seen the term used. Although DEC began making what today would be called components, it is most associated with minicomputers. But I don't think it was first as implied in this section Dennisbyron (talk) 17:17, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Also the AS/400 came much later than the fist minicomputer and was really a successor to IBM products knows as the Systems /3 and /3x instead of a reaction to the success of DEC and other mini manufacturers Dennisbyron (talk) 17:20, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
I believe Microsoft's first product, written by Allen, was a version of Basic. I think the company wrote DOS to get the contract related to the IBM PC Dennisbyron (talk) 17:23, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Jumping from there to SaaS leaves out an awful lot of software history??? Dennisbyron (talk) 17:23, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
The use of the term "piracy" in the sentence "SaaS reduces the concerns about software piracy" is pretty POV. As the FSF has remarked, do we really want to compare "unauthorized use" with "kidnapping and murder on the high seas"? So i would suggest the much more neutral "SaaS reduces concerns about unauthorized use of software". Son of eugene (talk) 06:58, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
'The word "software" was coined as a prank as early as 1953' -- the citation here is self-published, original research: one individual claiming to have coined the term in 1953. I strongly suggest it be removed. eggsyntax (talk) 17:04, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
The suppliers associated with the various sectors are misleading as examples in that most of the software market leaders develop and market all the various types of software listed. You cannot simply associate IBM and Microsoft with infrastructure software (what about Notes and Office) or Oracle and SAP with applications software (what about the Oracle database and NetWeaver) Dennisbyron (talk) 17:27, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
I might add something from this: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8085093 on buy versus build. Talpedia (talk) 11:33, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
"Class of businesses specializing in kishan the development, maintenance and publication of software" the word kishan shouldn't be there should it? I can't remove it because the page is protected but maybe someone else can. MagicPupper (talk) 10:40, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
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