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What Will Happen in IT in 2007?

Posted by Zonk on from the exciting-times dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet's Paul Murphy has set out his IT predictions for 2007. Featured among the completely predictable, OpenSolaris overtaking Linux is apparently inevitable within one year. From the article: 'By the end of the year the OpenSolaris community will be widely recognized as larger and more active than the Linux community.' Is 2007 the year of the OpenSolaris desktop? Other 'inevitables' include Microsoft's success with Vista, the continuing phase-out of Itanium, and the Cell processor powering most of the world's super-computers."

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  1. I don't get it by chriso11 · · Score: 3, Funny

    every competing OS developer community except Microsoft's will have copied the key ideas including its organisational structure

    Does that mean that he wants Linus to get hit by a bus? Cause that's what I'm reading!

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  2. IT will be sold on EBAY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    2. ???
    3. Profit!

  3. same old.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    my predictions apple will buy google and the us army, and turn all into iPeople.

    1. Re:same old.. by Ingolfke · · Score: 4, Funny

      my predictions apple will buy google and the us army, and turn all into iPeople.

      Actually, since Google is involved... that woudl be giPeople.

    2. Re:same old.. by earnest+murderer · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, since Google is involved... that woudl be giPeople.

      Drafting GI's? Nothing ever changes does it.

      At least we'll be able to do a spotlight search on Google Earth for WMD's.

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  4. Complete Drivle by meckardt · · Score: 1, Funny

    Everyone knows that there won't be any IT by the end of 2007, between Global Warming, Nuclear Winter, and the end of culture in America.

    1. Re:Complete Drivle by swordgeek · · Score: 5, Funny

      Culture in America was officially declared dead on December 8, 1980. The actual time of death is unknown.

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  5. Re:There will be competition for Exchange Server? by dbIII · · Score: 3, Funny
    Why hasn't any of that been successfully reverse engineered and cloned?

    Outlook not so good.

  6. My BOLD Predictions! by Nova+Express · · Score: 4, Funny
    1. Apple will release several cool new products.
    2. A Windows security hole will be discovered.
    3. Internet use will increase.
    4. Zune will not overtake the iPod.
    5. The prices of hard drives and DRAM will continue to fall.
    6. The circulation of print newspapers will continue to decline.
    7. Interest groups will raise a stink over violence in video games.
    8. A major technology company will introduce a new form of DRM...which will fail miserably.
    9. The next version of Mac OS X will be visually and technically superior to Windows Vista.
    10. Duke Nukem Forever will not be released.

    I know I'm going out on a limb here, but trust me. I'm a science fiction writer. I can see the future!

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  7. Re:What's with all this "2006 this" and "2007 that by Anomolous+Cowturd · · Score: 2, Funny

    They're numbers we assign to years, a measure of time. For more info on this little-known phenomenom see Wikipedia's Year entry.

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  8. Re:God, I hope so... by ceeam · · Score: 3, Funny

    BURN THE HERETIC!

  9. Re:God, I hope so... by Hognoxious · · Score: 2, Funny
    what kind of draconian place doesn't allow music? I bet their employee's efficiency sucks.
    It would appear that the answer is one man shops.
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