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source: CNET Posted by Margaret Kane - "Worldwide IT spending should top $3.4 trillion in 2008, up 8 percent from 2007, research firm Gartner Inc is predicting".....Software as a Service/cloud computing, service oriented architecture/Web 2.0, and open source software are causing huge changes to the software market," wrote Joanne Correia, managing vice president at Gartner in a research note. "Many of these factors are impacting market growth as enterprises replace assets with per-use services."...read more