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DATA MINE
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Jan. 6, 2000
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Let the Party Begin
Now that the Y2K blues are over, let the technology-spending party begin. At least that's what a survey of top chief information officers by Salomon Smith Barney suggests.
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| Why were technology sales soft in the fourth quarter of 1999? |
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| Y2K | 90% |
| Other | 10% |
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| What will happen to your high-tech budget in 2000? |
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| Increase by more than 10% | 22% |
| Increase by less than 10% | 40% |
| Stay the same | 14% |
| Decrease | 22% |
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| What will your spending priorities be in 2000? |
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| Internet and e-commerce | 34% |
| Communications | 9% | |
| Data warehousing | 2% |
| ERP | 2% |
| Customer billing | 2% |
| Enterprise applications | 2% |
| Business-to-business | 2% |
| Other | 45% |
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| With which technology companies do you plan to spend your 2000 budget, relative to 1999 spending? |
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| Dell | 12% |
| Compaq | -7% |
| HP | -4% |
| IBM | 12% |
| EMC | 6% |
| Storage Tek | 6% |
| NCR/Teradata | -2% |
| Lexmark | 1% |
| Unisys | -3% |
| SGI | 0% |
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| DATA: Salomon Smith Barney
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