Transfer from: Yield Network Leading: Last week, IBM, Microsoft and SAP, some traditional strong bailout reports are good news, while some new power of eBay, Amazon and Google also spread good, this seems to be a symbol of the recovery of technology industry. . IBM Chief Financial Officer Mark Lansery said he predicted that this year's investment increased by 4-5% this year, it is better than in 2000. Compared with the 1990s foam era, the moderate growth of IT industry this year does not seem to pay attention. This low-speed growth is an unanimous view. According to IDC research institutions, the global investment in IT industry in computer hardware, software and services in 2008 will be maintained at 6,5% growth rate, which is 1,5 times the average growth rate of the world economy. This marks the farewell to the past era, from the 1960-1990, global investment in technology is 2-3 times the economic average growth. The two reasons grow at low speed, and part of the reason is "Long Dafa". In other words, the information technology has now grown, it has become increasingly mature, and it is increasingly the mainstream of the economy. Further growth requires a gradual process. Of course, there is still a less obvious reason, this is the low-cost computing revolution (Low-Cost Computing Revolution). In other words, the company can spend more money, do more, hardware is growing, and the software is increasingly integrated. From individual calculations to the Internet, technology is steadily improved, which is an inevitable trend. This trend also means that the entire society is quite sensitive to information technology, and people's focus on the company's sales and profits are declined. Information Technology Strategic Research Institutions Fedex's Information Officer Robert Carter pointed out that "technology is for us, the expenditure is increasingly declining. My goal is to control IT expenses, get greater profits. Now, the global interoperability and technical service business is in amazing The speed growth, we are in this technology transition period. "In terms of hardware, the change in low-cost technology may be significant in the computer server market, which is widely used on the company network and the Internet. Many companies have used prices expensive computer to work, and now they use microprocessor technology manufactured by Intel and AMD to develop towards personal computer business. Idc estimates that since 1996, he is full of screaming, and it is more than 5.7 million this year. For example, last week, IBM said that it has reached 26% compared with the previous quarter, helping the company maintain 9% stable growth in hardware business units. In terms of software, low-cost changes are mainly developed to use open source software. Open source software such as Linux is free to circulate, and can run in the Apache server and MySQL database. In addition, this low price is also reflected in the automation of software standards, opportunities for machine communication, and Internet tools such as Java program language. From a long time, the free software is a threat to Microsoft and copyright models. However, as of now, Microsoft is still a winner of low-cost technology transformation. There are millions of standard servers in the world mainly installed using Windows or Linux operating systems. Currently, the solar micro system is developing in this regard, providing UNIX operating systems on low-cost standard servers. Last week, Microsoft said that the company's server software sales increased by 19% year-on-year, reaching $ 2.24 billion. The proliferation of low-cost technology in headache also increases the complexity of the operational technology. It requires a virtualization software program to control thousands of servers in large data centers, requiring software to automatically manage data centers. Of course, regardless of the problem, Opsware is one of the problems, regardless of large or small companies.
