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October 17, 2002

Predictions

(via Scott Loftesness) Gartner's ten predictions for the next eight years. My take on some of these:

  1. Bandwidth becomes more cost effective than computing. No. Bandwidth does increase fast - and in bigger jumps than desktop performance. But the edge is more mobile than the center.
  2. Most major applications will be interenterprise Yes, but "soft" interenterprise interactions are far more tractable (with stuff like Groove) than "hard", process-driven, structured integration.
  3. Macroecononic boost from interenterprise systems Yes, I hope so :-)
  4. Successful firms in strong economy lay off millions and I hope not...!
  5. Moore's Law continues to hold true through this decade Yes. There are some limits in wait, though. I don't think we'll see multiprocessor desktops in abundance, because of the margin those guys take. And 32-bit NT/XP has a 2Gb RAM limitation, so we'll be moving to 64 sooner rather than later.
  6. Banks become primary provider of presence services by 2007 Interesting. Unlikely, but interesting...