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The last 12 months will go down as one of the most disruptive and tumultuous periods in channel and technology market history. Not all the trends of 2009 are bad; in fact, some are quite positive. Channel Insider reflects on the top 20 trends of 2009 and their impact on the technology and channel marketplaces.

Top 20 Tech and Channel Trends of 2009 - 10. Death of Printers


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10. Death of Printers
For a time, HP was printing money through the sales of its printer consumables – ink, toner, paper. Those times are over, and not just for HP. All of the major printer vendors saw their sales tank in 2009 as more businesses looked to beyond reducing their printer fleet to simply reducing printing, in general. The cost of paper and toner is simply too much for many businesses to sustain. Users are growing increasingly used to viewing digital documents – the popularity of Amazon’s Kindle and other digital book readers that can display HTML and PDF documents – proved that. Environmentalism is increasingly working against printing as people become more conscious of not producing needless waste by printing documents. Printers will not go away since a need will always exist for hard copies. However, the days of having a printer on every desktop are likely over.

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  1. Top 20 Tech and Channel Trends of 2009
  2. 20. Recession, Recession, Recession
  3. 19. Coalescing Channel Communities
  4. 18. Price Integrity Slips; Margins Under Pressure
  5. 17. Marketing and Lead Gen Rediscovered
  6. 16. Security Gets Hot, Again
  7. 15. Consolidation of Professional Services
  8. 14. The “Free Way” to Expanding Market Share
  9. 13. Storage in Demand
  10. 12. Skills Shortage Amid High Unemployment
  11. 11. Let’s Get Vertical
  12. 10. Death of Printers
  13. 9. Unified Communications Gets Real
  14. 8. The Battle for the Setting Sun
  15. 7. Hewlett-Packard Buys 3Com
  16. 6. Cisco’s Unified Computing Strategy
  17. 5. Microsoft vs. Google: Open Warfare
  18. 4. Apple in the Enterprise
  19. 3. Rise of the Netbook
  20. 2. Windows 7
  21. 1. Cloud Computing (’Nuff Said)
  22. What’s Your Top Story of 2009?