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Survey: SOA In, Vista Out

Service-oriented architecture is the next big thing for CIOs, Oracle’s back in favor, and Novell is showing slight gains in Linux. Vista, however, is on the outs, according to a Merrill Lynch survey.

Merrill Lynch, which released the survey May 12, found that 47 percent of the 76 CIOs surveyed in April plan to increase software spending. That’s up from 43 percent from January.

Among the key findings:

  • SOA was cited by 87 percent of CIOs as “the next big thing” in enterprise software. However, only 11 percent of CIOs see SOA as a key priority for 2006, whereas 21 percent said they see SOA as a big priority in 2007. CIOs indicated they are most likely to spend their SOA dollars with IBM, Microsoft and Oracle.

  • Oracle applications and databases seem to be gaining favor. Among the CIOs surveyed, 38 percent said they plan to buy more Oracle applications, up from 31 percent in January. Only 10 percent said they will pause spending to wait for Oracle’s Fusion platform in 2008. The wild card with Oracle: 40 percent of CIOs say they may go with SAP. On the database front, 64 percent of CIOs say they expect to spend more on Oracle. The company’s enterprise search products, however, need more work, as 83 percent of CIOs said they don’t plan to buy them in 2006.

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    • Larry Dignan

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