Sentence examples for application sales from inspiring English sources

By 1997 almost 80 percent of Adobe's total revenues came from application sales, and that year marked the first time that Windows-product revenues exceeded Macintosh-product revenues.

Oracle no longer breaks out application sales by category because it is trying to sell most customers the complete suite, although customers pay only for the portions they use.

Observe Apple's rapid success with mobile phone and application sales.

Apple takes a 30% cut from application sales.

Those minor issues aside, Google now officially supports paid application sales from developers in 31 countries.

But it's been a rocky road lately: After two quarters of double-digit revenue declines, application sales were down 3% to $609 million in the first quarter.

(Apple takes a 30percentt cut of paid-application sales).

At the company's business division, which includes its Office family of applications, sales rose 7 percent.

Growing applications sales won't be the only challenge for Oracle.

Applications sales were $923 million last year less than 10% of the $10 billion total but at 42%, they are growing faster than the database business.

From 1991 to 1997 applications sales grew from $100 million to just under $500 million, but Oracle was still losing big contracts to competitors like SAP. "We were getting our clocks cleaned," says Lane. Ellison says that he finally "woke up" to the applications issue in 1997 when he began supervising the business.