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Inside Microsoft’s Big Enterprise Growth Plans

Although Microsoft’s server and tools division has chalked up more than 18 percent in year-over-year growth, has a revenue of $13.2 billion and would be the fifth largest software company on the planet if it were an independent firm, Microsoft thinks the division has tremendous room for growth. The division offers database, security, identity, IT […]

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Dec 11, 2008
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Although Microsoft’s server and tools division has chalked up more than
18 percent in year-over-year growth, has a revenue of $13.2 billion and would be the fifth largest software company on the planet if it were an independent firm, Microsoft thinks the division has tremendous room for growth.

The division offers database, security, identity, IT management, developer tools and operating systems, Bob Kelly, the division’s corporate vice president, told an audience at the Barclays Capital Technology Conference in San Francisco.

“If you add up all these categories, you have an $85 billion to $90 billion enterprise software segment, of which we have about $13.2 billion,” Kelly said. “There’s great opportunity and huge upside for us to deliver increased value at the right price.”

Kelly also talked about Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) plans for services, virtualization, and the cloud.

All the categories in which the server and tools division offers products will experience strong growth in the next three fiscal years, Kelly said.

In the database area, which Kelly said still has a lot of upside, Microsoft will target high-end data warehouses for the enterprise.

The vendor will combine “Kilimanjaro,” the codename for a highly scalable version of SQL Server scheduled for release in the first half of calendar 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2, and technology from its recent purchase of DATAllegro, Kelly said. Both SQL Server “Kilimanjaro” and Server 2008 R2 will support up to 256 cores per server. This will let it take on mainframe-class mission critical
database jobs.

Microsoft bought DATAllegro, which offered a data warehouse appliance, for an undisclosed sum in July with an eye to targeting the enterprise database and business intelligence market.

Gunning for the money

Microsoft will release another version of SQL Server in the first half of calendar 2010 which will target very high end data warehousing, where enterprises spend lots of money, Kelly said.

Developer tools were a more than $1 billion dollar business for Microsoft this year, and will be another area of focus because it still offers a significant upside, according to Kelly.

Services is going to be a powerhouse for earnings in Microsoft’s estimation. “The services category, essentially a body shop, consisting of the people that are used to run or deploy software, is worth $400 billion,” Kelly said.

“We have the opportunity to go after that opportunity and that’s the longer term vision – help customers through the lifecycle of building, operating and managing IT,” he added. “If we can do that, we’ll go from $90 billion to $400 billion.”

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Richard Adhikari is an experienced writer who specializes in high tech. His areas of focus include cybersecurity, mobile technologies, CRM, databases, software development, mainframe, and mid-range computing, and application development. He has written and edited for numerous publications, including eSecurity Planet and Serverwatch. He is the author of two books on client/server technology.

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