IIRC (this was discussed on the "free software business" email list a number of years back), Microsoft and possibly Autodesk are the only major software compani

IIRC (this was discussed on the "free software business" email list a number of years back), Microsoft and possibly Autodesk are the only major software companies that actually get the vast majority of their revenue from selling, well, software. Every other large company that is generally thought of as "selling software" also sells consulting services or hardware or some other complementary good.