Gartner numbers show dramatic growth for Oracle Fusion middleware
By Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 8/1/2006 6:00:00 AM
The market for integration middleware continues to be strong and highly concentrated, says Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner, with a handful of vendors accounting for 69 percent of sales.
Gartner Research VP Joanne Correia says users are starting to refresh systems installed during the last implementation wave, between 1995 and 2000.
Although IBM's commanding 37-percent share is more than double that of BEA, the No. 2 vendor, the numbers show strong 40-percent growth for Oracle. That was nearly triple the growth of Microsoft, the next fastest-growing vendor on the list. "There's a huge correlation between Oracle [database] and Fusion, and between SQL Server and BizTalk," Correia says.
That said, so-called "pure-play" integration vendors are getting squeezed by the leaders at the top, and a new wave of open-source and enterprise service (ESB) offerings at the bottom. ESBs, with revenues accounting for roughly $100 million of the total market, are poised for growth that will see them supplement, but not replace, application servers. Open source products also could grab 5 percent to 10 percent of the market by 2010.
Worldwide 2005 vendor revenue estimates for middleware, based on total software revenue
($ Millions)
| Company | 2005 | 2005 market share (%) | 2004 | 2004 market share (%) | 2004-2005 growth (%) |
| Source: Gartner Group |
|||||
| IBM | 3,159 | 37.2 | 2,960 | 37.3 | 6.7 |
| BEA Systems | 1,233 | 14.5 | 1,163 | 14.7 | 6.0 |
| Oracle | 739 | 8.7 | 530 | 6.7 | 39.6 |
| Microsoft | 397 | 4.7 | 350 | 4.4 | 13.4 |
| TIBCO | 314 | 3.7 | 290 | 3.7 | 8.5 |
| Other vendors | 2,657 | 31.3 | 2,643 | 33.3 | 0.5 |
| Total | 8,500.2 | 100.0 | 7,936 | 100.0 | 7.1 |
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