Five Predictions for 2009

Posted by rob on December 31, 2008

Drum roll please… Here are my five technology predictions for 2009.

  • Google will buy Twitter. Updated 2009-08-14 There was the rumor, but nothing as of late.
  • Sun Microsystems will be purchased by one of the following companies - IBM, Google, Oracle or Microsoft. Sun’s current market cap is $2.8 billion. Updated 2009-04-20  Sun agrees to be purchased by Oracle. http://tinyurl.com/c85lfw
  • IT departments will hunker down due to the depressed economy. Java, .Net, Oracle and SAP will remain entrenched as the dominant enterprise technologies until the recession is over. Updated 2009-08-14 OK, this was a lame prediction, but its pretty much true for this year. Will next year be the year of polyglot?
  • Yahoo will be acquired by Microsoft. With Jerry Yang out, the battle of egos is over. Updated 2009-08-14 So far I have this one wrong, but not completely, as Yahoo and Microsoft make a big search deal. Will the merger still happen?
  • Google Android, Amazon and Mozilla Songbird will force Apple to rethink its music download business model. Updated 2009-01-13 Apple is going DRM free. http://news.cnet.com/drm-free-itunes-store-to-haunt-apple/

Useless Info?

Posted by rob on March 11, 2008

Useless or not. You decide. The phrase “all rights reserved” is no longer required as of August, 2000. At least that’s what Wikipedia says. A lot of web sites have this in their footer, but many don’t. I think its a good piece of information to have (albeit, not so important), since its one more thing I don’t have to worry about finding a place for in the footer.