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
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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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