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Thursday, March 11, 2004
Microsoft gains market share in business-management software
Microsoft Corp. claimed 11 percent of the business-management software market less than five years after beginning to sell the products, figures compiled by market leader SAP AG show.
Microsoft is gaining on Oracle Corp. and PeopleSoft Inc. in software used for customer service and accounting, according to SAP. Walldorf, Germany-based SAP says it has a 54 percent share. Oracle has 13 percent, and PeopleSoft has 12 percent.
The gains by Microsoft may help buttress claims by SAP and Oracle that the market for these types of programs is more competitive than the U.S. government has found.
SAP and Oracle have challenged the Justice Department's view of the market in its decision to fight Oracle's $9.4 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft.
"This is a highly competitive market," SAP spokesman Markus Berner said yesterday. SAP prepared the figures to show investors, he said. "When we look at the competitive landscape, we see Microsoft as a competitor."
In challenging Oracle's hostile takeover of Pleasanton, Calif.-based PeopleSoft, the Justice Department focused on the competition among providers of applications software to large companies. It said the acquisition would reduce the providers to two from three, leaving Oracle and SAP.
Redwood City, Calif.-based Oracle argues that the government has taken too narrow a view of the market. SAP gathers market share figures for applications software sold to large and small businesses.
SAP Chief Executive Henning Kagermann has said he supports Oracle's argument that the government's definition of the market is "too narrow," Berner said.
SAP has said it will write to the Justice Department to say it agrees with Oracle.
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