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Forrester Says Tech Downturn Is Over

Is it safe to come out now? Forrester says it is, and that a long period of growth in technology spending is on the way. We'll see. The big target spending areas, according to our neighbors in Cambridge? Virtualization, cloud computing and unified communications. We're down with the first two, but we'd have to know exactly what UC is before we'd believe that anybody is going to buy it.

Posted by Lee Pender on January 13, 2010


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