Talk:Software industry

message: 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)
thread_title:  Software Industry Data 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Microsoft 

message: 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)
thread_title: Merging

message: 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)
replies: text: softwaretop100.org is not WP:RS -- EsotericRogue Talk 15:22, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Related, I removed Geography section.  After removing two bad sources, the only content might have been "The United States of America is clearly the leader" which isn't clear to me. -- EsotericRogue Talk 15:33, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

text: softwaretop100.org is WP:RS. Let's try to improve instead of merely delete what we don't like. Wikipedia was not built on deleted content. --BalderV (talk) 11:22, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Concerns over this article

message: *The 27 December edit here by User:Mikeblas incorporated the Software 500 table from Software Magazine. On 11 April 2007 the edit here by User:Wackymacs analysed this data. I don't know about the U.S. figures, but $4.4 million US$ for Germany for "the total amount of revenue brought by software and software services companies" is completely wrong. SAP is based in Germany and they reported €2,018,000,000 global income for FY 2004 (per ). The Wikipedia article on SAP says they are the 3rd largest software vendor in the world, so it is misleading to say that "The largest and most profitable of software companies are located in the United States" in this edit. The problem is that the Software Magazine 2007 listing uses SAP's US location as the reference point. On this basis how can we trust any of their figures?
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)
thread_title: United States mention is misleading

message: 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)
thread_title: History section

message: *This section was originally titled "practices" in this edit. User:Chendy re-titled it to "Sectors" in this edit but I think "Licensing models" would be a better title. Either way, a distinction between "Perpetual" and "Subscription" would be useful.
*The implication that only "Commercial" software is used for commercial purposes is misleading, given how much open source software is in commercial use.
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)
thread_title: "Sectors" is misleading

message: *Every statement in Wikipedia should be verifiable using external references - at least one per sentence. This article has only three references including the link to the maybe irrelevant Software Magazine article.
:softwaretop100.org is not WP:RS -- EsotericRogue Talk 15:22, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Related, I removed Geography section.  After removing two bad sources, the only content might have been "The United States of America is clearly the leader" which isn't clear to me. -- EsotericRogue Talk 15:33, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: softwaretop100.org is WP:RS. Let's try to improve instead of merely delete what we don't like. Wikipedia was not built on deleted content. --BalderV (talk) 11:22, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Lack of references

message: *Does the software industry definition also include activities from systems integration and custom/offshore software development? Or is the scope more limited, to prepackaged software? I think the definition should be precise on this. Probably SaaS should also be mentioned in the definition. BalderV (talk) 14:54, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: System integration

message: 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)
thread_title: Buy vs build

message: "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)
thread_title:  Wrong article description?