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Australian businesses are struggling to come up with innovative ways to deal with budgetary constraints, yet still fund the IT infrastructure they need.
More staff and greater bandwidth were among the requests on the Christmas wish lists of respondents to a recent IT Manager poll. But how are Australia's IT pros gearing up to turn dreams into reality in 2003?
Forty-one percent of Australasian CIOs will increase their IT spending in 2004 with new infrastructure their top priority. But dampening the good spending news is CIOs' resolve to fight vendors for every cent spent, according to a new survey by Forrester Research.
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