budgets

CIO: "IT budgets will shrink along with all other budgets, and maybe even more than other budgets. After all, companies still need to advertise and pay their workforce, but they may be able to do without new servers or software for a while.

And that is where open source software vendors can help keep the ship sailing."

The Open Road: "The even better news if you're open-source vendor Red Hat? Shrinking IT budgets are your friend."

Although overall IT budgets are expected to grow in 2008, about a fourth of CIOs in the United States reported decreases in their budgets in the first quarter of this year, according to a survey released by Gartner this month.