With the more mature markets seeing slow growth in IT spending thanks to continued economic worries and a credit crunch, emerging regions will help drive a 3 percent worldwide growth, according to IDC. IDCs forecast was less optimistic than Gartners, which is predicting a 4.6 percent increase. Such regions as the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America will see the greatest percentage increases in IT spending, IDC says.
– Global IT spending will increase 3 percent in 2010,
with much of that growth coming in such emerging markets as China and
India, according to research firm IDC.
In a report issued Feb. 3, IDC analysts said that
continued worries around the global recession as well as tight cash and
credit flow …