How does Microsoft work with ISVs?

posted by  techgeek (12)  15 months ago (bink.nu)

There are around 75,000 ISVs worldwide that drive approximately $250B of the software industry revenue.  Here, we define an ISV as any company that generates over $5M in software revenue annually OR any company with >30% of their revenue coming from software.  (We adopt IDC’s definition of “software revenue”, meaning any upfront license or recurring maintenance revenue associated with the sale of a software application.)

If you stack-rank all 75,000 ISVs based on their software revenue, you discover that the top 2% drive 80% of the industry revenue.  This top 2% corresp