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Gartner Says Application Development Is a $9 Billion Industry

Posted by timothy on from the give-or-take-59-cents dept.

CowboyRobot writes "Although not as lucrative as video games or movies, Gartner projects the software application development industry will pass the US$9 Billion mark this year. They credit 'evolving software delivery models, new development methodologies, emerging mobile application development, and open source software.' Also in the report is a projection that 'mobile application development projects targeting smartphones and tablets will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4:1 by 2015.'"

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  1. Is that all? by viperidaenz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My backwater country spends hundreds of millions every year on enterprise software development (which is guess is a part of application development?).With only $145M GDP and 4.4M people, how can we be a significant (significant being measured in %, not ppm) part of the worldwide market?

  2. What is "application development"...? by Half-pint+HAL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing in the article makes a solid distinction between "video games" and "application software", and there's a danger that the bundling of games into "app stores" such as Apple's clouds the figures. The phrase "emerging mobile application development" kind of makes me worried here. Certainly app stores like big headline figures, so their reporting won't always make that distinction, and a lot of leisure software isn't really "games".

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  3. Really ... Gartner?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is Gartner: "saying what we're paid to say for over 20 years." Why is anything they say on slashdot?