IT Dev Spending Still Flows to Big Players

CRMBuyer.com published some results of a recent survey under 300 developers and thier platforms of choice …. homerun for Microsoft so it seems.

I very much like the motivation (“focus on key enterprise priorities of applications  integration, security , cost-cutting, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning , customer relationship management and Web-based applications development”), because I seem to end up every time in discussions that Microsoft does not provide ‘enterprise grade solutions’. Don’t worry its just the guys from IBM saying that …

… Microsoft is slated to garner the majority of IT development spending over the next six months, according to a survey of more than 300 developers by Evans Data.

The reason is more complex than Microsoft’s dominance on the desktop or in corporate IT. Rather, developers are gravitating to Microsoft and other leading tech and software providers because of their focus on key enterprise priorities of applications  integration, security , cost-cutting, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning , customer relationship management and Web-based applications development, the survey found.

Other leading vendors ranked in this survey: SAP, Apple, IBM, Sun, Adobe, BEA, Oracle, AMD, Intel, Cisco, HP, Computer Associates, Compuware and Borland. …

  • … In the next year, survey respondents expect to increase spending on application development with SAP (54 percent), Microsoft (50 percent) and BEA (44 percent) more than with any other firms.
  • In the next year, they expect to increase SOA spending with SAP (41 percent), BEA (40 percent) and IBM (34 percent) more than with any other firms. …

Source: CRMbuyer.com