Worldwide Authoring Tools Software 2005-2008 Forecast: Healthy Growth Ahead

This IDC study provides a top-down sizing of the market for authoring software for the enterprise in 2003, as well as a five-year, 2004–2008 forecast for this market. It provides trends, historical data, as well as estimates for the future for the total worldwide market, including breakdowns by region and operating system.

"The authoring software market continues to show healthy growth and in some cases accelerating growth across all segments," said Joshua Duhl, IDC research director for Content Technologies. "We expect the market to continue to show healthy growth, with increasing competition in the creative segments for layout and design, audio, video, and DVD editing software, and open source continuing to challenge Microsoft's dominant position for office suites."