"Software Field" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example: He has been working in the software field for over ten years.
In 1983, the software field had become dominated by proprietary (ie nonfree) programs, and users were forbidden to change or redistribute them.
CNet notes that the acquisition comes at the "tail end of a wave of consolidation in the data center software field," which started out earlier this decade.
Throughout the software field, the excitement surrounding Linux has less to do with the technology itself than with the fact that it is the leading example of so-called open-source software -- software that is distributed free, with its underlying source code openly published, and is developed, debugged and improved by an international community of programmers.
What's happening in the software field is instructive here.
Are there any winners left in the software field?
But this isn't true of (much of) the software field.
At the same time, the established giants of the tax software fields, Vertex and Taxware, are slowly moving toward the Web.
Software fields are not good; but when you get closer to hardware it gets even worse, more male-oriented.
Patent Result says Panasonic topped the list because of some valuable patents in the semiconductor and word processing software fields.
Compared to Bush's Justice Department, which essentially closed up shop and allowed large companies to merge with impunity, Holder's attorneys were active, blocking proposed mergers in the tax-software field, limiting Google's potential takeover of the market for airline tickets, and other measures.
To prove the suitability of the prototype software, a field study with a three-stage evaluation approach was chosen, consisting of User Diaries, Observation and Focus Groups.
