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Oracle 1Z1-571 exam, a bellwether for enterprise software, on Tuesday reported that net income for its second quarter increased 17 percent year-over-year to US$2.2 billion. Revenue, however, rose a weak 2 percent to $8.8 billion, as sales of hardware systems declined. Oracle had forecast revenue growth of 5 percent to 9 percent.Oracle has focused on higher-margin hardware, but in a conference call, CEO Larry Ellison said it could be a quarter before hardware sales picked up, meaning the current quarter could be weaker than expected.The other piece of bad news was that, excluding one time items, earnings per share of $0.54 was slightly lower than analyst forecasts.

Oracle 1Z1-571 exam remained the top CRM vendor worldwide, growing above the market average, and it was the only vendor that earned double-digit market share during the first half of 2011.Salesforce.com posted the best year-over-year growth among the top 10 vendors during the same period and moved into the No. 2 position worldwide for the first time since IDC started tracking the market semiannually in 2008.Of the four functional markets, sales, marketing and customer service are each expected to achieve double-digit growth in 2011.A total of 18 vendors achieved revenue of more than $100 million during the first half of 2011.

The Oracle 1Z1-571 exam miss is, to me, interesting because I believe it signals not a single quarter result, but the beginning of the end of the licensed software paradigm, which I am calling “peak software.”While Oracle made a small amount of money in the last calendar quarter of 2011, it was far less than analysts’ projections and it calls into question the future viability of the licensed software business model. Oracle has announced its cloud technology, but it is still a company focused on selling software licensesTwo stories in particular relate to the front-office and customer-facing industry that we know and love — Oracle significantly missed its earnings target this quarter, and video chat is becoming pervasive.