ocr: U.S. NEWORKE SUPPORTI AND INTEGRATION SERVICES: SPENDING $22,500 Network support & maintenance 020,000 Network operational services 317,500 Network mplementation services a Network consulting services $15/000 $12.500 P10,000 $7,500 $5,000 52,500 1995 1997 1998 1999 2000 Year Source: nemational Date corp. Figure 1. These figures project A steady inciine in the outsourcing of vartous network support and integration services. A key impetus in this trend is the increase in the nmber of misSion-critical applications, whick are particularly detrimental 1o the botton Vine when a network failure occur ...
