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For historical perspective, in 2005 technology marketing spending was up 6.4%, in 2004 spending was up 5.8%, while in 2003, tech marketing spending was down 1.7%. Our partner IDC's CMO Advisory Practice projects that the global marketing budgets of IT vendors will increase by 7% on average in 2006. [1]
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