Leading IT industry analyst firm Gartner Inc has highlighted 10 key predictions of events and developments that will affect IT and business in 2008 and beyond.
1. By 2011, Apple will double its American and western European market share in computers
2. By 2012, 50 per cent of traveling workers will leave their notebooks at home in favour of other devices
3. By 2012, 80 per cent of all commercial software will include elements of open-source technology
4. By 2012, at least one-third of business application software spending will be as service subscription instead of as product license
5. By 2011, early technology adopters will forgo capital expenditures and instead purchase 40 per cent of their IT infrastructure as a service
6. By 2009, more than one-third of IT organisations will have one or more environmental criteria in their top six buying criteria for IT-related goods
7. By 2010, 75 per cent of organisations will use full life cycle energy and CO2 footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria
8. By 2011, suppliers to large global enterprises will need to prove their green credentials via an audited process to retain preferred supplier status
9. By 2010, end-user preferences will decide as much as half of all software, hardware and services acquisitions made by IT
10. Through 2011, the number of 3-D printers in homes and businesses will grow 100-fold over 2006 levels
Source:
http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/jan/31infotech.htm
