Autonomic Computing

Software Predictions

Although the market is difficult at present, there are several areas where new products and interests are emerging. These include the following:

• Web services have the potential to revolutionize the corporate software business by moving applications to a services-based architecture.

• Consolidation and mergers among software vendors both large and small will surely continue.

• Business intelligence, security, portals, content management, grid computing and self-managing systems are critical growth areas.

• New U.S. laws, such as Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley, are fuelling interest in records management systems and applications.

• Open source software continues to gain ground both in the consumer and corporate world.

• Open standards-based ...