25 Investment Research Findings for the Future in Reviewing "IT Top 12" 2006 Results, with 2007 Lookahead This report answers questions about what and how the leading IT suppliers did the 2006 and how they will do in 2007. For example: What was behind the Oracle comeback in 2007? The billions spent on acquiring applications market share or its good old dependable middleware? How is the IBM strategy of moving up the IT food chain proceeding? Isn't IBM still too dependent on technology as opposed to services? How will SAP make better use of NetWeaver now that NetWeaver is 10 years old? Will Microsoft adapt successfully to the open source software (OSS) threat? And worse, the European Union threat? Who were the leading IT suppliers in 2006 in applications, database, and infrastructure software, CPUs and operating systems software, peripherals, and IT-related services? And why? And who will move in what direction in 2007?
 This March 2007 IT Investment Research analysis answers these questions and looks at likely trends in the IT market for 2007 and beyond, concentrating on how the IT Top 12 has reacted to changes in the IT marketplace, such as the rebirth of business process management, the open source software (OSS) movement, experiential computing based on Web 2.0, service oriented architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS), hardware and software appliances, and more. Many events in 2006, particularly the delayed release of Vista by Microsoft and the delayed release of the GPL Version 3 from the Free Software Foundation, have shaped these predictions for 2007.
Copyright 2007, Dennis Byron
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