TOP 100 LARGEST SOFTWARE COMPANIES IN THE US - 2010

15 December 2010 , Written by Michel van Kooten

This 2010 edition contains the top companies in the software industry in
the United States, ranked by annual software revenues. Software
revenues are defined as revenues coming from sale of licenses,
maintenance, subscription and support. Revenues from custom software
development are excluded.

Please read the research methodology if you wish to gain a deeper

understanding of the way the list was composed.

More information on the largest software companies in the United States

can be found in this article with software industry analysis, trends and highlights.
The previous (2009) edition of the US Software Top 100 is available here.

Software Software Total Software

# Company Revenues Revenue Revenues Revenue
mln US$ growth mln US$ share
1 Microsoft > 49,090 -1% 61,159 80%
2 IBM > 21,396 -3% 95,758 22%
3 Oracle > 18,582 6% 22,734 82%
4 HP > 6,183 -15% 116,245 5%
5 Symantec > 5,565 -2% 5,992 93%
6 Activision Blizzard > 4,279 -7% 4,279 100%
7 CA > 4,012 2% 4,318 93%
8 EMC > 3,960 -6% 14,026 28%
9 Electronic Arts > 3,728 -13% 3,728 100%
10 Adobe > 2,796 -17% 2,987 94%
11 Cisco > 2,137 8% 36,633 6%
12 SunGard > 1,996 -1% 5,508 36%
13 BMC > 1,758 11% 1,888 93%
14 Infor > 1,575 -5% 2,100 75%
15 Autodesk > 1,557 -21% 1,764 88%
16 Intuit > 1,294 -6% 2,888 45%
17 Apple > 1,218 8% 43,086 3%
18 Synopsys > 1,202 0% 1,353 89%
19 General Electric > 1,200 9% 156,783 1%
20 Salesforce.com > 1,191 24% 1,287 93%
21 SAS Institute > 1,155 2% 2,310 50%
22 Citrix > 1,140 -3% 1,614 71%
23 NCR > 1,117 -22% 4,612 24%
24 VMWare > 1,029 -13% 2,024 51%
25 McAfee > 964 21% 1,927 50%
Software Software Total Software
# Company Revenues Revenue Revenues Revenue
mln US$ growth mln US$ share
26 Take Two Interactive > 916 -37% 916 100%
27 THQ > 909 -1% 909 100%
28 Qualcomm > 826 -7% 10,482 8%
29 Teradata > 772 -9% 1,709 45%
30 Sun Microsystems > 760 8% 10,211 7%
31 Novell > 751 -6% 853 88%
32 Cerner > 747 3% 1,672 45%
33 Cadence > 746 -18% 853 88%
34 Reynolds & Reynolds > 744 0% 967 77%
35 Compuware > 656 -10% 935 70%
36 NetApp > 655 14% 3,558 18%
37 Red Hat > 622 18% 732 85%
38 Sybase > 593 3% 1,170 51%
39 Intergraph > 578 -5% 770 75%
40 Nuance > 564 3% 976 58%
41 McKesson > 553 -3% 108,717 1%
42 SAIC > 539 8% 10,781 5%
43 Solera Holdings > 534 8% 593 90%
44 Sterling Commerce > 526 0% 634 83%
45 F5 > 519 4% 689 75%
46 Avid > 509 -29% 629 81%
47 Intel Corporation > 485 68% 35,172 1%
48 Mentor Graphics > 477 4% 802 60%
49 PTC (Parametric) > 477 -24% 960 50%
50 Verint > 468 7% 702 67%

Software Software Total Software

# Company Revenues Revenue Revenues Revenue
mln US$ growth mln US$ share
51 Lawson > 457 -1% 731 63%
52 Epic Systems > 451 0% 601 75%
53 Aspect Communications > 450 0% 600 75%
54 Progress > 445 -4% 495 90%
55 Rockwell Automation > 432 -24% 4,317 10%
56 Quest > 418 -11% 695 60%
57 Diebold > 413 -12% 2,718 15%
58 Pgi > 401 -4% 601 67%
59 Real > 401 -10% 562 71%
60 ESRI > 388 0% 776 50%
61 Ansys > 383 3% 517 74%
62 Google Inc. > 381 14% 23,651 2%
63 FICO > 375 -7% 625 60%
64 Tibco > 370 -5% 620 60%
65 Pitney Bowes > 365 -14% 5,569 7%
66 Emerson 363 -7% 20,697 2%
67 Blackboard > 342 21% 377 91%
68 Eclipsys > 339 3% 519 65%
69 Bentley > 333 0% 500 67%
70 MTV Games (Viacom) 327 -31% 13,619 2%
71 Websense > 314 9% 314 100%
72 Attachmate > 313 0% 470 67%
73 Informatica > 310 10% 501 62%
74 ACI > 293 -2% 406 72%
75 ADC Telecommunications> 282 -19% 1,126 25%
 Software Software Total Software
# Company Revenues Revenue Revenues Revenue
mln US$ growth mln US$ share
76 Jack Henry & Associates > 268 2% 766 35%
77 JDA > 268 -3% 386 69%
78 The Mathworks > 267 0% 400 67%
79 Epicor > 261 -8% 410 64%
80 Kronos 260 23% 716 36%
81 Disney Interactive 252 6% 36,851 1%
82 DST Systems > 241 -9% 2,218 11%
83 MicroStrategy 240 5% 378 64%
84 Avaya 236 0% 5,279 5%
85 Advent 234 13% 260 90%
86 National Instruments > 226 -18% 677 33%
87 Ariba 225 16% 340 66%
88 Information Builders 225 0% 300 75%
89 MSCI Barra 222 3% 443 50%
90 Rosetta Stone 219 20% 252 87%
91 Blackbaud 215 11% 309 79%
92 The Trizetto Group 215 0% 482 45%
93 Activant 207 -17% 376 55%
94 Serena 204 -10% 227 90%
95 Fiserv 203 -11% 4,077 5%
96 Cincom 200 11% 200 100%
97 Quark 200 -13% 250 80%
98 Concur 196 16% 253 78%
99 OpenLink Financial 184 32% 184 100%
100 Tyler Technologies 184 12% 290 63%