ocr: THE SOTTWARE The Software 500 Methodology The Software 500 is a comprehensive look at the enlerprise soltware lanoscepe, encompassing toth public and privale companres that develop and market business soitware. for a wide variety of industries: The ranking is based on total worldwide soitware revenue for 1998. Suppliers are not ranked on their total carporate revenue, since many have olher kines of business in addition to soltware. Software revenue sional services/consuling. cuslom programming, training, and hardware sales s excluded. Figures are based on Ihe: calendar year S0 tnal ali firms a ...