Key Findings and Recommendation
Introduction and Survey Objective
Key Finding: Infrastructure Cost Savings Fund Other Areas and Frontier Applications
Gartner Vendor Recommendations
Respondent Demographics by Region: Responses Worldwide Majority Non-U.S.
Respondent Demographics by Country: Responses Worldwide U.S. 13%
Budget Expectations: Not as Bad as It Seems
Budget Expectations: Very Little Change
Budget Categorical Percentage: North America IT Staffing the Largest
Software Spending in 2010 UP!
Software Spending on Vertical Software Up!
Software Spending on Horizontal Enterprise Applications Up!
Software Spending on Infrastructure Up!
Software Spending on Open-Source Applications Up!
Software Spending on Open-Source Infrastructure Up!
OSS Percentage of Software Portfolio Worldwide Trending Up!
SaaS Percentage of Software Portfolio Worldwide Trending Up!
Arithmetic Problems in Working With Averages: Why You Cannot "Check the Math"
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