IT Trends In and Out of Downturn

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 7, 2002 @05:54AM from the how-you-can-spend-more-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Washington Post has an interesting article talking about how IT industry is changing its business models to survive (IBM: "Pay As You Save"; HP: universal printer driver; Consulting weak; Oursourcing booming), as well as how outsiders view the downturn (Merrill Lynch: it's just another bust after PC and mainframe, but the good thing is, "each 'wave' has so far represented a tenfold increase in the number of technology users."). I'm particularly interested in the outsourcing story. It might explain why IBM will benefit and other vendors like Sun Microsystem which don't have a strong service arm will suffer."

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Re:Oxymoron by Pedrito · 2002-10-07 06:18 · Score: 5, Funny

There's the oxymoron of the day: "Save as you spend". Wow.

Wives have been using this one for decades. "Sure honey, I spent $500 on shoes, but they were on sale. I saved us tons of money."
A sign of maturity by FJ · 2002-10-07 06:49 · Score: 5, Funny

You'll know when the software industry matures. It is when the next release of a product introduces more new features than new bugs.