INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS AND MODELS
IDC's Software Taxonomy, 2007
Richard V. Heiman
IDC OPINION
IDC's software taxonomy represents a collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive view of the worldwide software marketplace. This taxonomy is the basis for the relational multidimensional schema of the IDC Software Market Forecaster research database. The information from this continually updated database is used to generate consistent packaged software market sizing and forecasts. Highlights are as follows: