The index, which measures the intention of information technology purchasing executives to invest in new capital projects, rose 25percentt in the fourth quarter of 2003, compared with the third quarter.
It will offer courses in the creative industries, business management and marketing, accountancy and finance, computing and information technology, purchasing, supply and logistics, teacher training, social science and psychology, counseling, health, nursing and social care, and sport.
Large federal information technology purchases have to end.
He said, in a report on the investment bank's Web site, that recent industry checks suggested that information technology purchases for storage would fall sharply in the first quarter of this year.
HP had previously accounted for about 10% of Amazon's information technology purchases.
The brands will combine legal, information technology and purchasing employees, the company said.
"This is fundamentally changing the way information technology is purchased and delivered," said Tom Kieffer, chief executive of Agiliti, based in Minneapolis.
Corporate customers, Mr. Capellas said, increasingly want to "purchase information technology as a utility" and he added that only a few companies will have the ability to be such full-service digital utilities.
The deal, to be announced today, is part of I.B.M.'s strategy to persuade customers to purchase information technology like software and data storage as utility-like services over the Internet.
On the residential side, "I like the amenities," said Thomas Schroeder, an information technology consultant who recently purchased two apartments -- one to live in and one as an investment -- in Mr. McLean's new residential building.
A recent study [1] found that if the current cost of power consumption continues to increase it may reach to a point where it will cost more money to power than to purchase information technology equipment such as servers.
