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Business Spending Drives Tech Optimism For New Year: Page 5 of 5

Another is outsourcing. Companies that embraced sending their technology elsewhere--including overseas--are starting to realize it may be more expensive than they thought, analysts say.

Finally, information technology spending on the real human beings who keeps systems running likely won't budge much. With the labor pool plentiful and companies still to cautious to start big hiring sprees, salaries aren't expected to grow much if at all.