HP has announced that market research firm IDC has ranked HP as the worldwide market share leader in distributed system management software for 2005.

According to the IDC study, HP led the worldwide distributed system management software market category for the third consecutive year with a 14.5 per cent market share for 2005.

In a separate IDC study, HP ranked as the worldwide leader in market share and software licence revenue in the distributed performance and availability management software market category for 2005.

HP led the category for the fourth consecutive year, achieving market share of 21.3 per cent – more than double that of the next two closest competitors – and software licence revenue growth of 9.5 per cent – outpacing the overall one-year growth of 7.9 per cent for the market category.

“Our continued market leadership and significant revenue growth rates for these key management software categories prove that our strategy to offer the most powerful management software portfolio in the industry is paying dividends,” said Deborah Traub, vice-president, OpenView Products, HP.