Software upgrades eat nearly a third of companies' IT budgets, survey finds

Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words "Artificial Intelligence AI" in this illustration taken, February 19, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Oct 20 (Reuters) - ⁠LargeUS and British companies spend 28% of their ⁠software budgets on average to pay for vendor-driven upgrades, ‌migration and licensing changes they would not have actively chosen, adding avoidable costs and operational risks inthe race to adopt AI solutions, a surveyby ​software maintenance provider Origina showed on ⁠Tuesday.

These hard-to-avoid recurring costs ⁠and operational disruption were described as a "software tax" in the study ⁠that ‌surveyed more than 2,000 companies."When the alternative to an unwanted upgrade is losing support on systems ⁠the business runs on, saying yes is often ​a rational ‌response,"OriginaCEO Tomas O'Leary said.

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10 月 20 日（路透社）——软件维护提供商 Origina 周二发布的一项调查显示，美国和英国的大型公司平均将 28% 的软件预算用于支付供应商驱动的升级、迁移和许可变更，而这些变更并非他们主动选择的，这在采用人工智能解决方案的竞赛中增加了可避免的成本和运营风险。

这项调查了 2000 多家公司的研究将这些难以避免的经常性成本和运营中断描述为“软件税”。Origina 首席执行官 Tomas O'Leary 表示：“当不进行不必要的升级会导致企业赖以运行的系统失去支持时，答应升级通常是一个理性的选择。”

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