From Internet Retailer 2007:
· 78.2% of the retailers surveyed plan to increase their spending on e-commerce applications and services this year
o 10.1% expect to spend as much as 50% more on e-commerce technology this year
o 9.4% will increase their spending from 26% to 50%
o 41.9% between 11% and 25%.
o 34.5% say their expenditures for new systems and services will grow by 10% or less.
· A new e-commerce platform is the top priority for 28.8% of companies
· Purchasing a new e-commerce platform within six months is a top objective for 23.4% of all companies.
o 14.4% plan to purchase a new platform in six months to a year
o 16% within two years
o 6.4% in more than two years.
· Business-to-consumer e-commerce market is projected to grow at around 20% to an estimated $172 billion in 2007.
· A total of 44.7% of retailers also expect to purchase a new order management system within 24 months, including 16.5% by the end of the year or in early 2008 and 28.2% within two years.
· 30.3% expect to acquire more rich media applications within a year, including 14.9% within six months.
· 27.6% anticipate implementing a new content management system within 12 months and 15.3% within one to two years.
· 41% of merchants taking part in the research expect to hire a consultant or another third party to help with a major e-commerce technology project within the next year.
From Netcraft, July 2007:
< My editorial comment > The server share growth will only help the commoditization of eCommerce capabilities closer to the server. <My editorial comment>
In the July 2007 survey we received responses from 125,626,329 sites, an increase of 3.62 million sites from the June survey. Recent trends hold steady this month, with the Internet's strong growth continuing apace and Microsoft making additional inroads into Apache's leadership in web server market share. The web has grown by 20.4 million sites thus far this year, slightly behind the growth rate from 2006, when the survey added a record 30.9 million sites.
Microsoft adds 2.4 million sites this month, pushing the total number of sites running on Windows servers past 40 million, and helping Microsoft improve its market share by 1.01% to 32.8%. The open source Apache server has an increase of 556K, and slips back 1.11% to 52.65%. Google gains 592K sites this month, and now has 4.35% share.
In active sites, Apache is now at 49.98% share, less than 14.5% ahead of Microsoft. While that's still a considerable lead, Apache had a 33.4% advantage at this time last July, meaning Microsoft has cut its deficit in half in the past 12 months.