| Global IT Ecosystem Versus OS/400
Ecosystem, Table A |
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Share of |
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Share of |
OS/400 |
| IT Jungle
Estimates for 2004 |
All IT |
IT |
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OS/400 |
OS/400 |
Share |
| First, Look at the Wares |
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Spending |
Wares |
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Spending |
Wares |
of IT |
| Hardware |
PCs |
$100 B |
8.3% |
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$3,400 M |
32.7% |
3.4% |
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Servers |
$50 B |
4.2% |
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$1,500 M |
14.4% |
3.0% |
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Other Hardware |
$100 B |
8.3% |
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$1,200 M |
11.5% |
1.2% |
| Software |
Core ERP & Related Applications |
$100 B |
8.3% |
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$1,500 M |
14.4% |
1.5% |
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Systems Software (OS+DB) |
$25 B |
2.1% |
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$350 M |
3.4% |
1.4% |
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Other Software |
$125 B |
10.4% |
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$350 M |
3.4% |
0.3% |
| Peopleware (Services) |
All Kinds, Because I Am Lazy |
$600 B |
50.0% |
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$1,600 M |
15.4% |
0.3% |
| Telecom/Datacom |
Just Telecom/Datacom for IT |
$100 B |
8.3% |
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$500 M |
4.8% |
0.5% |
| Total IT Ware Spending |
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$1,200 B |
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$10,400 M |
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0.9% |
| Total IT Ware Minus PCs |
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$1,100 B |
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$7,000 M |
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0.6% |
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| Now, Add in
the People Costs |
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| IT People |
Programmers, Managers, Admins, etc |
$1,250 B |
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$54,170 M |
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4.3% |
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Total Headcount |
15 Million |
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650,000 |
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4.3% |
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| Total Spending |
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$2,450 B |
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$64,570 M |
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2.6% |
| People to Ware Ratio |
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1.04 |
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5.21 |
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| 1. IT Spending
means money spent for IT operations at companies, including IT vendors |
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| 2. Sales do
not include reseller channel markup for any products. |
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| 3. PC
expenditures at OS/400 shops included to make a fair comparison to the total
IT market. |
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| 4. For the
OS/400 platform, IT people costs means literally the salaries and overhead of
OS/400-related IT employees; costs |
| for IT platforms associated with other
platforms at OS/400 shops are not included. |
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