Business Blog: Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

Last week I talked a bit about Dell in a post that drew the attention of Dell’s own blogger. (See the comments section for that post.)

Today I came across this tidbit from ZDnet, which breaks down the latest UBS poll of CIOs in the US and Europe. While it’s not as though Dell is hemorrhaging, the report reflects chunks of bad news for the erstwhile king of the computing mountain, especially when it compares Dell to archrival Hewlett-Packard.

A key tidbit:

The UBS survey also reveals some early vendor specific concerns. For instance, more CIOs indicated that they planned to spend less on Dell desktops compared to March. According to UBS only 9 percent said they expected to increase spending with Dell in the second half of 2007 compared to 23 percent in March. Twelve percent of respondents plan to decrease spending on Dell desktops. HP appears to be the beneficiary with 16 percent of CIOs expecting to increase spending on HP desktops with 11 percent reducing spending.

The whole piece is worth reading if you’re interested in trends for corporate spending on computing equipment. Among other things, the piece includes some information on trends in uptake of server virtualization, the business pioneered by VMware (discussed further in this August 15 post).