How The Internet Helped The Red Cross Raise Money
Blame The Game

Software Sector May Get Hit Hard

The Market

from the not-good dept

Tue, Sep 18th 2001 12:42am — Mike Masnick
For a whole variety of reasons, the events of last week may hit the software sector particularly hard. Many large software sales projects go through right at the end of the third quarter. Those big sales take lots of face to face meetings, and last week was mostly a lost week - and it's much tougher to fly anywhere to meet with companies right now. Also, with the threat of war on the horizon, many companies may be holding off on their spending plans, and are in no mood to buy a large enterprise software system. Of course, if you're in the military simulation software business, you might be in better shape.
3 Comments

If you liked this post, you may also be interested in...

Reader Comments

Subscribe: RSS

View by: Time | Thread


  • identicon
    Scott, 18 Sep 2001 @ 9:11am

    Teleconferencing

    This may be the shot in the arm that teleconferencing needed. Windows 2000 and XP come with Netmeeting and you can download it for others. There are many other products as well.

    The stock values climbed yesterday as the news that many companies would implement these technologies.

    [ link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Scott, 18 Sep 2001 @ 9:46am

    Additional Software

    Additionally, Biometric identification technology, for figerprint and iris, will be getting more attention for use in buildings, airports and other security specific applications.

    Storage Area Networking and Backup and Data Replication software will be getting more attention as well.

    So were as ecommerce and non-mission critical application software may be taking a hit, mission critical and security applications should soar!

    [ link to this | view in chronology ]


How The Internet Helped The Red Cross Raise Money
Blame The Game
Follow Techdirt
Essential Reading
Techdirt Deals
Report this ad  |  Hide Techdirt ads
Techdirt Insider Discord

The latest chatter on the Techdirt Insider Discord channel...

Loading...
Recent Stories

Friday

19:39 Important Announcement: Techdirt Is Migrating To A New Platform (0)
More arrow

This site, like most other sites on the web, uses cookies. For more information, see our privacy policy. Got it
Close

Email This

This feature is only available to registered users. Register or sign in to use it.