IT Trends In and Out of Downturn

An anonymous reader writes "Washington Post has an interesting article talking about how IT industry is changing its business models to survive (IBM: "Pay As You Save"; HP: universal printer driver; Consulting weak; Oursourcing booming), as well as how outsiders view the downturn (Merrill Lynch: it's just another bust after PC and mainframe, but the good thing is, "each 'wave' has so far represented a tenfold increase in the number of technology users."). I'm particularly interested in the outsourcing story. It might explain why IBM will benefit and other vendors like Sun Microsystem which don't have a strong service arm will suffer."

Consulting weak?

[Em Emalb]

subliminal message there guys?

Re:Oxymoron

[Pedrito]

There's the oxymoron of the day: "Save as you spend". Wow.

Wives have been using this one for decades. "Sure honey, I spent $500 on shoes, but they were on sale. I saved us tons of money."

A sign of maturity

[FJ]

You'll know when the software industry matures. It is when the next release of a product introduces more new features than new bugs.

Re:Outsourse tech support for grandma

[Boss, Pointy Haired]

Look's like a great service s'long as you don't get through to TrollGeek.

"Ok Betty, click on Start, then Run, then type 'cmd' and press Enter'.

"Done that."

"Now type format c: .....

Brought to you by IBM

[anthony_dipierro]

It might explain why IBM will benefit and other vendors like Sun Microsystem which don't have a strong service arm will suffer

At first I thought "Huh? Sun has a strong service arm..." Then I saw the Big Fucking IBM ad and realized what was going on.