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 How much of an impact has the Web had on the way you do business?  In which area do you expect IT spending to increase the most? In which area do you expect IT spending at your company to decline the most? Which of these companies will be the most relevant to your business for the next five years? What role does Linux play in your company's plans? How will the number of employees in your company's IT department change by the end of the year? Rate the concepts based on whether they are more hype or reality. Is "Wintel" making greater inroads into businesses (For example, are you buying Intel-based servers and Microsoft software such as SQL Server?) When do you expect corporate IT spending to rebound? How many employees in your company? |
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Is Linux really becoming more important to the enterprise? Will spending on information technology recover this year? And is grid computing more hype than reality?
Many analysts, investors and tech executives have their own answers to such questions, but we wanted to know what our readers think. After we posted a survey on News.com early last month to gauge opinions on a range of subjects, more than 2,200 of you responded within a few days. Among the conclusions: Red Hat is almost as "relevant" to businesses as Microsoft, IT staffing is expected to remain steady or grow, and spending on security will remain strong. But we didn't stop there. We also wanted to know how readers' views on these subjects compared with a group of chief information officers that makes up Decision Labs, a unit of CNET Networks that regularly polls CIOs on a range of topics. Among this group of 230 professionals, Red Hat's relevance plunged to single digits, there was slightly more pessimism about staffing, and spending on security was eclipsed by services and consulting. The following pages provide details about these twin polls, which serve as a supplement to our Vision Series on corporate information chiefs. How can the results help you in your business? The poll of CNET News.com readers was conducted between May 6 and May 15. Decision Labs sampled a global panel of CIOs representing organizations with 500 or more employees, from a variety of industries. Decision Labs, part of CNET Networks, is a research unit dedicated to collecting and reporting CIO opinions on current and late-breaking IT topics.
(Note: Some answers may not total 100 percent because of rounding.) |
