Gartner: IT Spend Up By Only 2 Percent
Research by Gartner suggests that global IT spending will increase by only 2% this year, to $US3.7 trillion. Sounds like a lot of money, but if we’re looking to climb out of a recession here, it’s not a very big bump. The stock market has been warm this year (was hot, but June was a blast of a/c) and employment has shown signs of heading in the right direction; but you’d think if anything would be leading the charge to prosperity it would be IT so even disregarding the immediate self-interested implications of this tepid figure it’s a little disheartening. Given too that Gartner’s forecast is a substantial drop from their previous 4.1% prediction, the economic entrails are looking a little sour.
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