The Australian IT outsourcing market could be headed for a downward spiral, recent findings at IDC have uncovered.
Despite fears the US recession will adversely affect Australian IT, the outlook for the services market is rosy, according to new figures.
Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson believes that with the days of one-vendor-fits-all type outsourcing now over, long-running rivals will be forced to enter marriages of convenience if they are to get a share of the government dollar.
Despite reports that the IT services market is a set for a boom, research company Whitehorse, predicts that a revitalisation of the industry is still a long way off.
Many companies that have outsourced their IT are dissatisfied with the service provided by outsourcers, but few are likely to stop the practice altogether, opting instead to renegotiate current contracts.
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The falling cost of IT workers has resulted in changes in the attitudes of IT managers, who are bringing more staff in-house and are not particularly concerned about keeping them, according to IDC.
A major cyberterrorism event will occur in 2003, a technology research group predicted on Thursday, one that will disrupt the economy and bring the Internet to its knees for at least a day or two.
Australia's IT services market has come through its relatively mild financial crisis relatively unscathed, and certainly in much better shape than it could have ever anticipated.
Australian IP telephony hardware revenue is set to hit AU$679.33 million by 2006, with up to 40 per cent of existing equipment replaced by hardware that includes IP telephony capability, according to IDC.
The semiconductor market will grow at 18 percent in 2004, according to International Data Corp. The growth will be driven by stronger than expected mobile phone and PC shipments.
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