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Small Business
Boasts Big Tech Market
Table of Contents
- Market Overview
- Segmenting Small Businesses
- Technologically disabled
- Technologically advancing
- Technologically-mature
- Computer Hardware
- Total Market
- Market Growth
- Firms with More than 20 Employees Drive Spending...
- Computer Hardware Allocation Breakdown
- The Smaller They are the More They Spend on Computer
HW...
- Server Hardware
- E-commerce Drives Server Hardware Growth...
- Small Business Servers are Roughly $...
- Larger Small Businesses Have Been Using Servers
for Years...
- Server Operating Systems
- Growth Driven by Small Businesses with More than
20 employees...
- Client Hardware
- Segments Are Equal Above and Below the 20 employee
marker...
- Storage Hardware
- Use Computers, Create Files, Need Storage...
- Small Business Have More In-house Computing Resources...
- Firms with More than 50 employees Have Doubled
their Internal Resources
- No Email, Unlikely for Most Admin's to Have Computer...
- Client Replacement is Not as Slow as Thought of...
- Computer Software
- High-end Applications for Larger Firms...
- Total Market
- Market Growth
- Packaged Applications Expected to See Strong Growth,
More Computers Drives It...
- Packaged Apps and Databases Lead Growth in Computer
Software Market...
- Computer Software Allocation Breakdown
- The Larger Firms will Lead Spending on Non-packaged
Applications...
- Packaged Applications
- More Computers, More Channels, More Users, More
Growth...
- Databases
- Growth Driven by Small Businesses with More than
20 employees...
- Industry-specific Applications
- ERP in Larger Firms, A Market May Materialize...
- "Other" Computer Software
- Microsoft Dominates the Small Business Desktop...
- Small Business Expect to Operate in Networked Environments
at Turn of Century...
- Many Small Businesses Weren't Using Anything Prior
to Microsoft...
- Will There be a PROBLEM?
- Small Businesses Have Quite a Y2K Multiplier...
- Conclusion
- Go on the Road and TEACH These Buyers...
- Methodology & Sources
- Report Map
Report
Information
Small businesses leverage
substantial purchase power, investing roughly $57 billion
in computer hardware and software in 1998. The substantial
multiplier effect in this market combined with a rapidly
developing buyer segment, suggests that computer hardware
and software vendors will enjoy healthy demand from the
2.2 million small business in the US. This report discusses
trends in small business computing and details current
and expected computing infrastructure including number
of clients, servers and desktop operating system. Further,
forecasts are provided for several areas of computing
infrastructure spending including client hardware, server
hardware, storage hardware, packaged applications and
databases.
- Report
Title: Small
Business: Computing Infrastructure & Forecasts 1998-2002
- Report
number: MMSB9803MS
- Date:
April 1999
- Pages: 34
- Price:
$2,495
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