Question 8

E. An August 2?, 1991, 1rWall Street Journal article reported that increasing numbers of small software nns are being absorbed by that industry's biggest companies. Accordingto WEI, the result of this dominanee by a few giants is that the industry has beeonte much tougher for software entrepreneurs to break into. The newspaper printed the chart given in the accompanying gure to depict the breakdown of market share among software companies. Refer to this chart to answer the following questions: {a} List the companies in descending order of market share. {b} What is the combined market share for lotus Development and WordPerfe ct? {e} What is the combined market share for Microsoft, Lotus Development, and Novel]? Rom entrepreneurs to corporate giants: market share among the top lfl software eompanies, based on total 19% revenue of $5 .Tr' billion