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[2010-02-25] Global IT Spending Set For Modest Growth
A slow but steady improvement in the macroeconomic environment in 2010 should lead to modest growth in overall IT spending, according to a recent forecast by Gartner.

[2010-02-08] Why Zend Sees No Competition In Facebook's PHP
Facebook recently open sourced HipHop for PHP. According to Facebook engineers, the technology has been used to reduce Facebook Web server CPU usage by an average of 50 percent. Reading about HipHop for PHP I was reminded about a post from Redmonk's Stephen O'Grady titled "When Your Customer is Your Competitor: The Return of Roll Your Own". Stephen argues that the traditional definition of a "software company" is far too narrow.