Information technology in the business world through the years and beyond!

Journal of the Academy of Business and Economics, March, 2004 by Ihssan Alkadi, Ghassan Alkadi

Despite the hard times and the cautious environment amongst buyers of information technology, polls conducted by IDC showed a willingness to purchase necessary technology, according to Gantz. Chief information officers polled by IDC were optimistic about the prospects of the U.S. economy and their own companies and expect to increase their IT spending about six percent over the next year Itworld.com.

Along with the U.S., the rest of the world is improving and increasing the technology available. The AsiaPacific region is expected to see substantial growth in Information Technology spending, with China and India predicted to be the largest markets for technology companies amongst emerging markets, according to statements made by Stephen Minton, IDC's Program Director of Global Information Technology Markets and Trends Itworld.com. Some companies from other countries such as China and India are beginning to make more sophisticated use of their Information Technology infrastructure which will provide a bigger and better world economy.

It is obvious that new technology has changed the way of life in almost all aspects. The important thing to know is that these changes have not stopped and will continue to advance. Bigger and better forms of technology are being produced everyday, keeping up with the competition, and are being introduced to our businesses and society. Dell computers are one example that is at the top of the competition. Michael Dell, the owner of Dell computers, for example spoke at a news conference in Tokyo and said, "Despite the success we have enjoyed in quite a difficult market, we are quite optimistic about the opportunities that are available for Dell in the US $800 billion Information Technology market. If you look at the various sectors, you can see that Dell has plenty of room to grow across PCs, servers, storages, services, software and peripherals, data networking. In fact, we are growing fastest in those areas that have the highest growth Lundberg.

Windows, created by Microsoft, has grown to become the top program in the world. Again, with Windows being so popular and widely used, upgrades are very much expected as much as possible. Microsoft's current plans calls for the next release of Windows for the desktop to appear in the second half of 2004, officials say Berger. That release is code-named Longhorn and Microsoft has promised to pack a number of new technologies into the operation system that coincide with its Web-based .Net initiative Berger. This shows evidence of how new technology is focusing toward the World Wide Web and with each arrival of a new version of Windows brings more efficient and more advanced features. With this new technology Windows is creating comes more difficult coding and more time to get it to the stores. The company is working to add more security to the software and is spending more time analyzing code, which is slowing down the process of shipping new code to customers Berger. No matter how much more difficult these newer versions take to create, Microsoft has promised its customers an upgraded version and they expect to get just that.