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Im currently doing a Dissertation for my degree which compares Europe, Japan and America, basically im looking at which one will eventually come out top on the IT scene.
At the moment im trying to find out what are the top 5 performing IT companies in Europe, Japan and America.
Ive looked loads of places and i cant seem to get anywhere at all.
Ive looked at the FT website, but they want bloody money for the information!
I know there's alot of financial and IT people here, so i was wondering if any of you could help me - do you know of any organisations which hold this information?
Is there any links that you can give me that might be useful. Any help would be very much appreciated!
If any of you have a subscrption with the Financial Times website and would be willing to let me use your password then i would be very grateful!
Please help me cos i want to graduate, so i can get a job, then be able to afford a Porsche or a TVR!
Thanks,
Marvin
>>> Edited by Super_Marv on Saturday 2nd November 12:52
At the moment im trying to find out what are the top 5 performing IT companies in Europe, Japan and America.
Ive looked loads of places and i cant seem to get anywhere at all.
Ive looked at the FT website, but they want bloody money for the information!
I know there's alot of financial and IT people here, so i was wondering if any of you could help me - do you know of any organisations which hold this information?
Is there any links that you can give me that might be useful. Any help would be very much appreciated!
If any of you have a subscrption with the Financial Times website and would be willing to let me use your password then i would be very grateful!
Please help me cos i want to graduate, so i can get a job, then be able to afford a Porsche or a TVR!
Thanks,
Marvin
>>> Edited by Super_Marv on Saturday 2nd November 12:52
Go to your local business reference library, they will start you off for free, and point you to the right jouranls, research reports, existing theses. They will also tell you how to structue what it is you are lookig for.
The IT research companies such as Gartner, IDC, Bloor, Forrester all will have websites which will talk around it but cost shedfuls. But they will have some free reports. Yuo should also look for Univeristies in the UK and the US who specialise in researching the software /hardware market: they will also have free research reports. Their is a good information professionals website called Free Pint which should point you to information sources, you will just have to look around. You should look at the websites of the big players and get their annual reports and any white papers they have: so IBM/Lotus, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP (only really major european software player), PeolpeSoft, Siebel; then there is all the Telecoms lot even Worldcom (who own most of the pipes for the internet), Cisco (routes and all the infrastructure kit). Their are websites from Cnet (i think), Silicon, also another good one used to be www.brint.com
But you have to be careful as to how you define "size" and "IT"..market share, revenue, profit, geographic coverage, users, what sort of IT (is telcoms part of it or not..ie connectivity .v. hardware .v. software (with all of its segmentation). And there's alot of sources on the web lacking in provenance. I can't recommend too strongly that you start with your business library. Choose something easier like automotve software transforming the Car industry..far more focused and might add to people's knowledge; who gives a flying fook about major IT stuff..too much already been written.
As for getting a TVR, thats far harder.
>> Edited by woolfie on Saturday 2nd November 13:50
The IT research companies such as Gartner, IDC, Bloor, Forrester all will have websites which will talk around it but cost shedfuls. But they will have some free reports. Yuo should also look for Univeristies in the UK and the US who specialise in researching the software /hardware market: they will also have free research reports. Their is a good information professionals website called Free Pint which should point you to information sources, you will just have to look around. You should look at the websites of the big players and get their annual reports and any white papers they have: so IBM/Lotus, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP (only really major european software player), PeolpeSoft, Siebel; then there is all the Telecoms lot even Worldcom (who own most of the pipes for the internet), Cisco (routes and all the infrastructure kit). Their are websites from Cnet (i think), Silicon, also another good one used to be www.brint.com
But you have to be careful as to how you define "size" and "IT"..market share, revenue, profit, geographic coverage, users, what sort of IT (is telcoms part of it or not..ie connectivity .v. hardware .v. software (with all of its segmentation). And there's alot of sources on the web lacking in provenance. I can't recommend too strongly that you start with your business library. Choose something easier like automotve software transforming the Car industry..far more focused and might add to people's knowledge; who gives a flying fook about major IT stuff..too much already been written.
As for getting a TVR, thats far harder.
>> Edited by woolfie on Saturday 2nd November 13:50
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