Japan Systems Software 2010-2014 Forecast and 2009 Analysis

This IDC study, which is a translation of the Japanese report IDC #J10450103, divides the Japan systems software market into the OS market, virtual machine software market, application/user session virtualization market, and high availability (HA) clustering software market and presents an analysis of the market size from 2007 to 2009 by operating environment and vendor. It also provides market forecasts from 2010 to 2014.

"The systems software market is largely dependent on the hardware shipment trend. As a result, the sharp drop in PC and server shipments due to the 2009 economic downturn also dealt a severe blow to the systems software market. It is necessary to have a business model that will reduce hardware dependency and enable vendors to obtain stable revenue from software alone in the future," says Mitsuhiro Iriya, market analyst, Software, IDC Japan.