The shrinking IT Budget

摘要

IT budgets have been sprinting upward for years, stoked by Y2K projects and kicked into high gear by E-commerce efforts. But an Information Week Research study conducted last month suggests the giddy momentum may finally be slowing. The Priorities survey features quarterly interviews with 300 IT and business executives. For the first time in the survey's four-year history, more than half the respondents say their budgets are either flat or declining—almost double the 28% who responded the same way in the last survey, three months ago.