Good insights from Gartner and Forbes into what’s happening out there.

• Half of CIOs had a change in their budget from what was originally approved at the beginning of 2009. Of those, 90% reported that the change was negative. So we’ve revised the survey results that we reported at the beginning of the year, which showed spending would be flat. CIOs now say their budgets will be down 4.7% for the remainder of the year.