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Posted by Laura on November 23, 2008

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By 2011 Apple will double its US & Western Europe Market Share

By 2010, 75% of organizations will use full life cycle energy and CO2, footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria

By 2012, 50% of traveling workers will leave their notebooks at home in favor of other devices

By 2012, 80% or more of all commercial software will include elements of open source technology

By 2009, more then one third of IT Organizations will have one or more environmental criteria in their top six buying criteria for IT related goods & services.

Through 2011, the number of 3d printers in homes & businesses will grow 100 fold over 2006 levels

By 2010, end users performances will decide as much as half of all software, hardware and server acquisitions made by IT

By 2011, early technology adopters will forgo capital expenditures and instead purchase 40% of their IT infrastructures as a service

By 2011, suppliers to large global enterprises will need to prove their green credentials via an audited process to retain preferred supplier status

By 2012 at least one third of business application software spending will be as a service subscription instead of a product license.

Provided by Gartner Research

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