Nick Wingfield, The Wall Street Journal Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi published the results of a May survey of 105 U.S. and European chief information officers this morning with some interesting tidbits on how big businesses are looking at some big-name products.
IPhone: Apple lately has made a lot of noise about beefed-up support in the iPhone for Microsoft’s Exchange email server, security and other corporate-friendly features. But Bernstein found that only 2% of CIOs plan on actively deploying iPhones within their organizations over the next year. “If this persists, it may ultimately limit iPhone penetration into the corporate space even though Apple has added Microsoft Exchange support,” Sacconaghi concludes in his report.
There’s a silver lining, of sorts, though: 10% of the survey’s CIOs currently support iPhones that employees buy on their own nickle, with that figure rising to 25% over the next 12 months.
Vista: CIO enthusiasm for Microsoft’s much-maligned Windows Vista operating system has “materially deteriorated” due to lower appreciation for its security and productivity features, Sacconaghi says. Only 10% of respondents said they had begun to upgrade to Vista, down from 16% in November and 30% in May of last year. Less than 20% of CIOs agreed that Vista would deliver productivity and security improvements, down from more than 35% in Bernstein’s prior two surveys on the topic.
Overall, Bernstein’s survey of CIOs, all of whom were with global 1000 companies with average annual revenues of $3.6 billion, indicates IT spending growth this year will be 3.1%, down from 3.8% growth in 2007.
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