Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse
Enterprise-sized businesses spend, on average, 28 percent of their software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing changes.
Ars Technica reports: Enterprise-sized businesses spend, on average, 28 percent of their software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing changes.
Often, those firms' IT heads think those changes are detrimental. Those results are according to a survey of 2,018 chief information officers and senior IT decision-makers at companies with at least 10,000 employees that Origina commissioned for its report, “The Software Tax.”
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- About half of the respondents (1,011) are from the US, and the rest are from the United Kingdom. (Ars Technica)
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