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Global IT spending this year, product will be near 4 percent decline in

By Haven Frbiz

IT industry research firm Gartner Inc. Said that the global economic downturn will have a negative impact on IT spending is expected for all IT products this year, spending will decline nearly 4%.

Gartner said this morning, is expected within the scope of this year's global total IT spending will fall to 3.2 trillion U.S. dollars, will be lower than in 2008, 3.4 trillion U.S. dollars. Gartner analyst Richard - Gordon (Richard Gordon) pointed out that the decline will hit the highest record over the past decade.

Gordon said: "The use of IT around the world businesses are required to budget cuts, and consumers are reducing non-essential expenditure. Businesses and consumers to respond to the adverse economic environment, the speed and extent are similar, which would cause 09 decline in IT spending over 01 years of 2.1%, although at that time coincided with the Internet bubble burst. "

Gartner pointed out that almost no field of science and technology to avoid the impact of IT spending downturn. Gartner expects this year's computer hardware spending will be reduced 15 percent, to 324.3 billion U.S. dollars; telecom spending will decline 3% to 1.89 trillion U.S. dollars; IT services spending will decline nearly 2 percent, to 796 billion U.S. dollars.

Gartner prediction software spending this year may have a slight growth, Gartner software will be divided into four major areas of IT spending growth of only some of the possibilities. Gartner estimated the 2009 global software spending will grow by 0.3% to 222.6 billion U.S. dollars.

Gartner also said that the Government's stimulus package States in the near future IT industry will not have much positive impact, unless the global market has become stable, start, otherwise the global IT spending will maintain business as weakness.

Gartner is expected to consumers and businesses will continue to shift low-cost IT products, at the same time, efforts to extend the period of use of existing products. In addition, the expected decline in IT spending will limit the enterprises to enter new markets.

Although Gartner on IT spending issued a gloomy outlook for freedom of speech, but Tuesday's afternoon trading普涨large technology stocks. As of 2:29 pm EST (GMT Wed 2:29), IBM (IBM) shares rose 3.09 U.S. dollars to 97.61 U.S. dollars; Apple Computer (AAPL) shares rose 1.24 U.S. dollars to 105.72 U.S. dollars; Microsoft ( MSFT) rose 1.07 U.S. dollars to 18.56 U.S. dollars, or more than 6%; Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) rose 11 cents to 32.23 U.S. dollars. - 18780

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