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Bad News: IT Spending on the Way Up

Gartner says that IT spending will go up 5.1 percent year-over-year in 2011. But there is poop in this punch bowl -- according to Gartner, the increase is mainly down to the dollar's exchange rate and might not actually be good news at all.

Posted by Lee Pender on January 10, 2011


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