Tech spending will increase, IBM will indemnify customers in the SCO suit, and information technology services provided to U.S. customers through offshore labor will double in 2004, market analysis firm IDC predicted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“IT spending is more correlated with corporate profits than (gross national product) or other factors, and corporate profits are increasing,” said Frank Gens, senior vice president of research at IDC.<\/p>\n
Servers running so-called x86 processors and Windows or Linux will continue to grow at the expense of RISC-Unix servers. In 2004, x86 servers will account for more revenue overall, and Linux will account for 10 percent of the servers sold in the United States. “Although manufacturers continue to promote the concept, real investments in server virtualization and other techniques to more efficiently use computing resources will continue to lag,” the prediction said.<\/p>\n
The value of IT goods and services coming to the United States that are produced by offshore labor will hit $16 billion, doubling 2003’s total.<\/p>\n
Not only will large U.S. companies continue to outsource, Indian service providers will gain market share as well.<\/p>\n
The number of public Wi-Fi hot spots will grow from the current 50,000, to 85,000 by the end of the year, IDC said.<\/p>\n
Chinese IT spending will hit $30 billion and grow at four times the rate of that of the rest of the world. Eastern European nations, meanwhile, will see a surge in spending as 10 new nations, most from Eastern Europe, join the European Union.<\/p>\n
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