IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that the analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has ranked them as the market share leader worldwide for enterprise portal software. these numbers are based on total software revenue for 2007.

With over 6,000 portal customers such as Cisco Systems, Inc., Duke Medicine, and the Australian government, IBM is the worldwide market share leader 7 years in a row.

“At IBM, we’ve designed our portal software with easy-to-use Web 2.0 technologies that put people in control of IT, not the other way around,” said Larry Bowden, the “At IBM, we’ve designed our portal software with easy-to-use Web 2.0 technologies that put people in control of IT, not the other way around,” said Larry Bowden, vice president, IBM Portals and Mashups. “Individuals at work and at home increasingly want to gain insight, publish content, and access services on their own.” V.P. of IBM Portals and Mashups. “Individuals at work and at home increasingly want to gain insight, publish content, and access services on their own.”

Joomla is still way ahead, but since it is FOSS it doesn’t have a market share