Schmelzer described the current IT spending milieu as being on the conservative side.

“I can say that in general the pace of spending for middleware apps in the enterprise is slowing considerably. Simply put, many enterprises already have much of the functionality they need — often times, too much,” he explained by e-mail. “We see enterprises focusing less on new middleware investment and more on reuse/shared services and cloud activities that aim to lessen their infrastructure spending, shift costs to third-parties, and remove unneeded complexity.”

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