While IT executives can see the benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, minimal budgets and a lack of mature technology are holding back adoption, according to the research house.
The global market for IT services climbed to US$607.8 billion in 2004, up from US$569.6 billion in the prior year, according to early estimates released on Tuesday by Gartner.
Sun boss Scott McNealy has identified his number one rival: finance directors in end-user organisations around the world who are holding an ever-firmer grip on IT spend.
As a few hardware and software suppliers come to increasingly dominate, companies must use caution, Gartner advises.
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Information technology spending has stabilised at the start of 2003, but talk of general improvement for the rest of the year is premature, according to a new survey.
Sun boss Scott McNealy has identified his number one rival: finance directors in end-user organisations around the world who are holding an ever-firmer grip on IT spend.
guide If you want to get your proposals past the CFO, you must show how the technology investment is going to help the company move forward. Enlist the help of the requesting department and speak in language the financial people want to hear.
As a few hardware and software suppliers come to increasingly dominate, companies must use caution, Gartner advises.
Budgets may be tight but there's still some room for spending. CIOs and CTOs say they're choosier about what they buy--they're looking to save money and make disparate systems work together.
Cyber-criminals, God, the universe, mafia, aliens, Nazis and IBM -- these are just some of the subjects touched upon when ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia interviewed Richard Thieme at the AusCERT security conference in Queensland last month.
We set the specs and the price and had a look at what Australia's PC vendors could come up with in terms of performance
For a budget notebook, the Centoris W259 packs a wide range of features into its sub-3kg shell.
Need a new server but only have AU$2500 to spend? The range of options is surprisingly good as long as you're willing to do without some of the fancy features.
Dell's new mainstream Dimension 4700 is an affordable, forward-looking PC that's well suited for the home or the small office.
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