"a number of software" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, "A number of software packages offer user-friendly features for beginners."
Along the way you enjoy a number of software niceties.
The company also included with the computer, a number of software programs.
That show brought together a number of software works in which Arcangel had hacked outmoded computing equipment and games.
In summer 2012 Apple sued Samsung in California and won damages of $930m for infringement by Samsung of a number of software and "design" patents.
For those who can actually read the language, but whose computers cannot recognise the script, a number of software solutions are beginning to emerge.
As a veteran user experience manager for a number of software companies, Singh believed there had to be a better solution.
The iPhone 5 supports faster 4G mobile networks and also comes with a number of software updates, including Apple's new in-house maps feature.
A number of software options are available.
This chapter analyzes a number of software architectural styles.
A number of software allow detection, expensive ones and free ones like Past [14].
They constructed a number of software examples and used a selection of metrics to measure them.
