SoftwareCEO Community - Strategy and Leadership http://www.softwareceo.com/forums Software business planning, including questions about organization, leadership, and executive coaching. en Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:15:45 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.softwareceo.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg SoftwareCEO Community - Strategy and Leadership http://www.softwareceo.com/forums Percentage of software products vs. in-house? http://www.softwareceo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4777&goto=newpost Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:38:19 GMT I can't turn up a statistic that hopefully one of the members here can point me to:

What is the estimated percentage of software applications written which are commercial products, as opposed to custom apps used in-house within an organization?

I once read somewhere that commercial products comprise a minority of applications written each year, with most programmers employed making specialized in-house solutions. But alas, I can't turn up that statistic, or others like it.

Any pointers to good info on this would be appreciated.

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