The government marketplace continues to face a variety of business and technology issues that represent significant challenges and opportunities for the vendor community. This presentation will highlight the impacts of the stimulus legislation and FY 2010 budgets across Federal and state and local government organizations, examine the movement within core (enterprise resource planning (ERP), security, outsourcing) and emerging areas (cloud, SaaS, Web 2.0) of technology development, and identify the key marketing messages for technology executives to deliver across the government marketplace.