{"id":438,"date":"2007-05-24T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2007-05-24T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T12:41:00","slug":"438","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/24\/438\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are NetApp sales slumping because of their customers perception of a steady decline in  customer service and support or because of slumping overall slumping IT spending?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articleinvesting.aspx?type=marketsNews&#038;storyID=2007-05-23T204757Z_01_N23239538_RTRIDST_0_NETAPP-FORECAST-URGENT.XML\"> SAN FRANCISCO, May 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Network Appliance Inc.&#8217;s (NTAP.O: <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articleinvesting.aspx?type=marketsNews&amp;storyID=2007-05-23T204757Z_01_N23239538_RTRIDST_0_NETAPP-FORECAST-URGENT.XML\">Quote<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articleinvesting.aspx?type=marketsNews&#038;storyID=2007-05-23T204757Z_01_N23239538_RTRIDST_0_NETAPP-FORECAST-URGENT.XML\">, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articleinvesting.aspx?type=marketsNews&amp;storyID=2007-05-23T204757Z_01_N23239538_RTRIDST_0_NETAPP-FORECAST-URGENT.XML\" class=\"\">Profile<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articleinvesting.aspx?type=marketsNews&#038;storyID=2007-05-23T204757Z_01_N23239538_RTRIDST_0_NETAPP-FORECAST-URGENT.XML\"> , <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articleinvesting.aspx?type=marketsNews&amp;storyID=2007-05-23T204757Z_01_N23239538_RTRIDST_0_NETAPP-FORECAST-URGENT.XML\">Research<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articleinvesting.aspx?type=marketsNews&#038;storyID=2007-05-23T204757Z_01_N23239538_RTRIDST_0_NETAPP-FORECAST-URGENT.XML\">) chief executive said lower demand for its products by U.S. corporations was hurting sales, leading the data network storage maker to forecast declining sequential revenue.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articleinvesting.aspx?type=marketsNews&amp;storyID=2007-05-23T204757Z_01_N23239538_RTRIDST_0_NETAPP-FORECAST-URGENT.XML\"> &#8220;We saw a slowdown in information-technology spending in U.S. enterprise accounts,&#8221; CEO Dan Warmenhoven said in an interview after the company reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday. &#8220;We&#8217;re not confident that we are back in a normal spending pattern.&#8221;<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HP seems to be upbeat on server sales, If HP&#8217;s server sales are growing &#8211; why would storage sales be slumping for NetApp?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB117933941013605172-search.html?KEYWORDS=IT+Forecast&amp;COLLECTION=wsjie\/6month\">H-P&#8217;s results, attributed to strong sales of personal computers and server-computers, had been preannounced earlier this month <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information Technology is a complex marketplace, and we  are seeing two very different views of corporate IT spending patterns here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-7185937816940202520?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are NetApp sales slumping because of their customers perception of a steady decline in customer service and support or because of slumping overall slumping IT spending? 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