Driven by fear behind, American companies let IT grow until it reaches one half of all companies with capital spending in 2000. Now, be punished by failure of their spending, IT managers gathered at a new consensus: IT for competitive advantage they must use their intelligence for the big money. The shift in thinking occurred only free software, open source, international cheap programming labor, and new technology combine to create a new approach possible. A former Fellow at Gartner Research, Keller persons in view of irrational spending in many Fortune 500 companies,? Personal technology acquisition affect billions of dollars. In Technology Paradise Lost Keller explains how new thinking is working in some countries the edge? What s the most complex and successful organizations, including Merrill Lynch, JetBlue, Harrah? S, and Motorola, which have cut IT spending to get competitive, and experienced marked gains to their bottom line. Such advances, new IT-think will cause further major disruption in the computer business, with fundamental changes in the way software is developed, sold and used. cost. In an unexpected twist, Keller believes that while IT spending is reduced importance for competitiveness will grow. Counterintuitively, companies that spend less in order to get more from information technology will likely be the big winner.