John Gantz Quotations

More important than this temporary alignment is the fact that the indicators are going in the same direction and have been doing so for several months. The Katrina period seems to have been the low point and we interpret the trend as the slow accommodation to the reality of higher oil prices. We also like seeing user expectations in line with vendor revenue forecasts.

I think A lot of small businesses can go home on Friday night and come back to work on Monday and worry about it then, and a lot of large companies can't.

Users were down on the future right after Katrina, and it showed in our surveys. Then last month they more than doubled their spending outlook when users realized the economy was still perking along. This month they came back to earth. Small business executives were especially realistic.

We think the sudden reversal of expectations was only partly the result of cooling thoughts about the future. The rest was a result of statistical variability in the sample polled as we indicated it might be last month.

The good news is that the economic assumptions behind our IT forecast are holding up.

The respondents in this month's poll were quite bullish. The dynamic is that fewer and fewer companies are expecting cutbacks. That raises the average.

The respondents in this month's poll were quite bullish.

Then last month they more than doubled their spending outlook when users realized the economy was still perking along. This month they came back to earth. Small business executives were especially realistic.

In some really small businesses, it may be that your only computer guy will have to come in. Paying overtime for those people is a little more of a burden on the small company.