This report presents five-year spending forecasts for overall IT spending in the small business market. Forecasts for overall spending and for the six broad spending categories of computer hardware, applications, networking infrastructure, telecom services and equipment, IT personnel, and outsourcing and hosted services are presented and broken down by size of business.

The market for messaging continues to grow with sales shifting from traditional voice mail only to unified messaging capable systems. Longer term, the shift to unified messaging will have a dampening impact on total messaging revenues, given lower price points and a shift of some revenues to data equipment suppliers.

Wireless, and to a lesser but growing extent VoIP, is causing concern among traditional wireline voice providers that they may be losing their customers to the competitive offerings.

This Microsoft Excel data file includes detailed forecasts of Small Business (firms with 5 to 99 employees) IT spending for the 2005-2010 period across the six broad categories: computer hardware, applications, networking infrastructure, telecom, IT personnel, and outsourcing and hosted services.

Other than IP, few network services have the potential to transform wide area business networking like Ethernet. This service is seeing considerable growth, as it provides users with significant benefits.

This report provides segmentation of the number of employees and firms in the US business market by size of business including SOHO (1 to 4 employees), small (5 to 99 employees), mid-sized (100 to 999 employees), and enterprise (1,000+ employees) businesses, with vertical segmentation by the following industries.