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Enterprise Software Companies Get Thrashed

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SAP missed Q4 numbers. It stock fell 10%. Revenue was below Wall St. estimates and software license revenue was up only 11%. The firm had earlier guided to 15% to 17%.

Oracle, SAP’s top rival, had its stock beat up in mid-December when its software license business grew 14%, below expectations.

After lagging Oracle’s stock over most of the last year, SAP’s shares have opened up a nice lead over the last month or so. SAP can kiss that lead good-bye.

The broader question to come out of the Orcacle (ORCL) and SAP (SAP) reports is whether there is a global slowing of enterprise software licensing. Microsoft (MSFT) is also in this business, but it is not a large portion of their revenue. At Oracle and SAP, software licenses drive support fees down the road. If licensing is lagging, 2007 could be a long year for the two huge business software rivals.

Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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