What's Hot and Not in 2004?
NWC readers offer their thoughts on what technologies, people and companies they think will be both "hot" and "not" commodities in 2004.
January 10, 2004
Kevin Kempskie
HOT:
• Host-based Intrusion Prevention Systems
• Integrated Web Services Management and Security Solutions
• Broadband remote access service aggregators
• Managed IP VPNs - IPSec and SSL
NOT:
• Signature-based Intrusion Detection Systems
• XML Firewalls
• Single-source remote access connectivity providers
• Frame Relay and private line WANs
Mark Jass
HOT:
• Unemployement if all this offshoring continues.NOT:
• The economy if all this offshoring continues.
Dan Bishop
HOT:
• wireless business apps
NOT:
• standalone PDA apps
Mel Sumrell
HOT:
• Wireless (connectivity,apps)
NOT:
• SPAM
Sharvil Patel
HOT:
• Wireless networking and access, VPNs, fast internet access, security issues, globalization, PDAs, palms, work from home solutions, broadband
NOT:
• dial-up, costly copmuter parts, baseband, computer companies
Ken Bartke
HOT:
• WLAN's, Patch Management, SAN's.
NOT:
• MS 2003 Server
Dave Cooksey
HOT:
• Apple ComputerNOT:
• Microsoft
Dan Kwitchen
HOT:
• Link to "Call for Entries: What's Hot and What's Not for 2004"
NOT:
• Link to the "extended list of reader entries"
John Maxfield
HOT:
• Linux
• iSCSI
• email based worms
NOT:
• Micro$oft products with expiring support
• direct attached storage
• M$ Exchange
David Constantino
HOT:
VoIP and Wireless
NOT:
The fact that Fritz has to get a date off of the Web.
David Blomberg
HOT:
Linux, Cisco, PHP, Apache
NOT:
SCO, MS Security
David Feligno
HOT:
Spam, Anti-virus, Firewall/VPN
NOT:
Microsoft's Excuses
Dan Kwitchen
HOT:
Americans losing jobs...stupid
NOT:
Outsource countries gaining jobs...also stupid
Liz VanNoy
HOT:
RedHat , Novell-SuSe
NOT:
SCO, Microsoft
Hasan S. Alkhatib
HOT:
IPsec Peer-to-peer secure communicationNOT:
SSL secure remote access
Donna michaels
HOT:
Computer ads with the Hilton Sisters; outsourcing
NOT:
Computer ads with Dell Dudes; downsizing
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