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OnForce: businesses fix computers instead of buying new

26 July, 2009
By [ci] channelinsider

With a glut of old computers at-the-ready for redeployment, their old users the victims of downsizing, businesses haven't been eager to invest in new computers or other IT infrastructure. Instead, many of the jobs available these days are in repairing the old technology. And those two trends have driven price down for IT service jobs.

Solution providers that have kept a foot in break/fix work may be enjoying a bit of a leg up on the competition during this recession. That's because break/fix is where the jobs seem to be these days as businesses look to make their existing technology last longer and perform better.

So says online IT services marketplace OnForce which recently released its second quarter report on work orders and work order volumes for various kinds of jobs.

"There's not a lot of new infrastructure or equipment being bought," OnForce CEO Peter Cannone tells Channel Insider. "In Q2 the U.S. shed 1.4 million jobs and that's created an oversupply of technology equipment in the marketplace. Companies now have extra desktops and notebooks available to them."

And while OnForce has seen a decline in work orders for new technology deployments, it's seen a surge in demand for break/fix work. According to OnForce 64 to 65 percent of the business is now break/fix, including in warranty and out-of-warranty repair.

"We only see new technology on the business side when it's absolutely necessary," says Cannone. He estimates that it will take another 12 to 18 months to run through the excess technology that businesses already have on hand.

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