Choose your vendors wisely

According to Gartner Research's Mika Yamamoto Krammer, when the economy recovers, many software and hardware companies that are now targeting the SMB market will go back to focusing on larger companies, potentially leaving you in limbo:

"Large enterprise space is so saturated, yet the mid-market is under penetrated This is a scary proposition for small- or mid-sized business. When the economy recovers we're going to see a mass exodus of IT vendors from the SMB market — 70 to 80 percent of the venders serving the SMB market today won't be there tomorrow. As the IT market consolidates and enterprises start spending again, SMBs need to know they've picked a brand they can trust."

Gartner recently released its SMB vendor ratings. Check out the first of SmallBusinessComputing's three-part series of the study:
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.co...le.php/3306971

--Dan Muse
Executive Editor
internet.com's Small Business Channel