“BEA Systems, Inc. today announced that the company remains the
leader in the Linux-based Application Server Software Platform
(ASSP) market for the third year in a row, and that it grew by 166%
2003 over 2002, as measured by worldwide license and maintenance
revenue, according to IDC’s Worldwide and North American
Application Server Software Platform 2003 Vendor Analysis. By the
same metric, the IDC market model reveals BEA again captured the
leading share in the North American market and in the Unix-based
application server software market worldwide. The definitions of
ASSP and software revenue, as well as the survey methodology and
the operating-environment/regional modeling assumptions underlying
these rankings are outlined in the report…”