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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Obligatory Beowulf Post by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-07 06:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of business models!
- Beowulf? by czardonic (Score:4, Funny) Monday October 07, @02:02PM
- Re:Obligatory Beowulf Post by Anonymous Coward (Score:-1) Monday October 07, @02:02PM
- Greatest joke ever! by conner_bw (Score:1) Monday October 07, @02:03PM
A strong service arm? by Prince_Ali · 2002-10-07 06:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If I wasn't afraid of having to post at 0 again I would have made a lewd joke about having a strong service arm. Moderation works!

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