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29 May 2009

IT failure drives upgrades for small businesses


Small businesses will not justify expenditure on the most up-to-date IT equipment unless their systems fail, according to one expert.<br/> <br/>Adviser for the business support service Business Link, Ganesh Selvarajah, noted that many of the companies that Business Link deals with are still using older office equipment and not "posh email services" and "BlackBerrys".

He said: "Equipment [is updated] usually only when there's been a system failure or their applications are getting very resource hungry and therefore the hardware can't cope."

"Most of the time they are looking at their cash flow and thinking 'do I need to spend £1,000 on a laptop or a desktop now?' or 'do I need to upgrade that printer?' It's usually a failure issue that drives it," he added.

Worldwide IT goods and services sales, to businesses and governments, are set to decline by three per cent in 2009, according to recent research by Forrester Research Inc.<br/>

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