ANTenna Blog -- Business & E-Business

No matter if you're on Barack Obama's bandwagon, reveling in McCain's number 2, Sarah Palin, holding out hope for Nader, polling for Ron Paul, or sitting on the sidelines, you can expect that the results of the coming election will change your businesses' IT budget.

According to the CDW IT Monitor, 36 percent of IT decision makers surveyed believe that the upcoming election will have an impact on their IT budget, 29 percent claim it affect staffing, and 38 percent anticipate a change in offshore outsourcing.

Parsing out the data by company size, the so-called medium-sized company with 100-99 employees differs from the overall corporate response by a few data points, notably in preferring neither candidate and concern about staffing/outsourcing decisions. The spread for the small companies with 0-99 employees differs from the corporate overall more often, but less consistently -- deviating from both significantly in a lack of certitude about any one candidate.

As to what exactly will these changes be, according to the results you can expect growth or stasis in IT budgets.

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