SANTA CRUZ, CA, May 22, 2007 - Overall, the largest portion (50%) of software professionals expect to increase their IT development spending with Microsoft more than any other company, according to respondents of a recent Evans Data Corporation study. In a study designed to clearly articulate the opinions and attitudes of software professionals, Microsoft ranked highest for expected increases in IT spending. Other leading vendors ranked in this survey were: SAP, Apple, IBM, Sun, Adobe, BEA, Oracle, AMD, Intel, Cisco, HP, Computer Associates, Compuware and Borland.

"While many new vendors are taking advantage of the emergence of virtualization, SOA, software as a service and Enterprise 2.0, it is still those incumbents who continue to enhance their product roadmaps and, in some cases, their pricing models who are forecast to benefit the greatest in IT spending," stated John F. Andrews. "These incumbents enjoy the greatest revenue growth due to their focus on the key enterprise priorities of applications integration, security, cost cutting, business intelligence, ERP/CRM and web based applications development."

More findings regarding IT spending from in-depth interviews with over 380 active developers:

• Top three companies developers expect to see an increase in their Application Development spending with next year: SAP (54%), Microsoft (50%), BEA (44%)
• Top three companies developers expect to see an increase in their Service Oriented Adoption (SOA) spending with next year: SAP (41%), BEA (40%), IBM (34%)

Evans Data Corporation provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans' syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects.

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