Global OS revenue up 7.8 % in 2010: Gartner
27 Apr 2011
Global operating system (OS) revenue was up 7.8 per cent in 2010 to total $30.4 billion, in 2010 with the recovery in demand for IT products and services, according to research firm Gartner.
An operating system (OS) is software, comprising programmes and data that runs on computers and manages various application softwares.
With the recovery in the global economy, worldwide OS revenue stood at $30.4 billion in 2010 from $ 28.14 billion in 2009, Gartner said in a statement.
Microsoft expanded its market share to 78.6 per cent in 2010 from 77.9 per cent in 2009. IBM and HP came next with 7.5 per cent and 3.7 per cent share, respectively.
"The long-pending demand for PC refreshment was unleashed as the economy stepped out from the economic turndown, which drove growth of client OSs," according t Gartner principal research analyst Matthew Cheung.
Oracle jumped from the No 8 position in the ranking in 2009 to No 4 in 2010 thanks to its acquisition of Sun Microsystems' Solaris business in April, 2009.
