The Big get Bigger
Is this an economic or a biological rule?
From a piece in Forbes on a Merrill Lynch report about where resumed technology spending will go:
Still, even in this tough environment one company is unwilling to discount the pricing of its products--Microsoft. The world's largest software company ranked dead last both domestically and internationally for its flexibility in pricing. But that isn't affecting its importance to customers. The company ranked first domestically in terms of being a key software provider over the next five years.
This is truely amazing. It's not hard to argue that Microsoft is facing more competition than it has since Windows 95 debuted nearly 7 years ago. And still they have that kind of pricing power, when companies are installing Linux Servers and even desktops all over the place?
Other interesting news from the report is that, yes Virginia, folks will actually start spending on IT again.
And when do American IT executives expect their software spending will accelerate? The majority, 43%, said it will happen in the second half of this year, while 28% indicated the first half of 2003 and 24% said the second half of 2003 or even 2004. Internationally, 55% said spending would not pick up until the first half of 2003 at the earliest.
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