Forrester recently surveyed 878 IT decision-makers at North American enterprises. Forty-eight percent represent enterprises with 1,000 to 4,999 employees, and 52% represent companies with 5,000 or more employees. On average, these enterprises increased their IT budgets by 2.4% over 2003, up from the average of 1.7% growth projected for 2004 at the end of this past year.
This research determined that .NET has the edge when it comes to choosing a development platform. In interviewing these enterprise software decision makers, Forrester found that 56 percent were using .NET as their development platform.
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