I made a lower CapEx budget for next year because of discount from being under a Global license.

But on some OpEx, I had to project what was last year with this year's inflation rate. I can't guarantee whether suppliers will lower or raise prices, though I am sure the first half may have lower prices. I will be able to tune this down by 2010.

Overall, I am not that generation which 'use it or lose it'. That's a darn waste of money. IT has achieved greater value with lesser costs, it should reflect in the budget, somehow.

Maybe it was the big IT budgets which made internal IT the focus of outsourcing by the bean counters. On that issue, I have mixed-strategies due to constraints on head count, but its another topic.