The economic downturn could be one of the biggest threats to face traditional tech vendors, as businesses increasingly look to alternative technologies to help get them through the recession.

That's according to industry experts at The Intellect Annual Regent Conference 2009 in London, who said businesses will be looking at more innovative technologies to cut costs as well as prepare for the end of the recession.

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