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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="contentboxhead3" colspan="2" style="padding-bottom: 10px;" align="left">Worse than 2001 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-right: 10px;" valign="top" width="300">Image: http://infotech.indiatimes.com/photo.cms?photoid=4350492 </td> <td valign="top" width="410"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="more">Image: http://infotech.indiatimes.com/photo.cms?msid=1784493 Mail to friend</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="normtxt" colspan="2" style="padding-top: 7px;" valign="top" width="100%" height="250">Worldwide IT spending to total $3.2 trillion in 2009, a 3.8 per cent decline from 2008 revenue of nearly $3.4 trillion, according to Gartner Inc.
The IT market slowdown in 2009 will be worse than the 2.1 per cent decline in IT spending in 2001 when the internet investment bubble burst. </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
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