Nearly 60 percent of CIOs anticipate <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2004872,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">increasing their software spending</A> through the rest of 2006, while only 33 percent expect spending to remain flat and 2 percent expect a decrease in spending. Those are the results of a new survey by Merrill Lynch analysts, who released their results on Aug. 16 in a report called "July '06 Survey of Software Spending Intentions."