Traditionally we have always done a ‘Predictions’ piece sometime just
before year’s end. In it we take our crystal balls firmly in hand, don
our silicon turban and prognosticate on the future of various aspects
of the tech industry.
This year we didn’t.
We just weren’t seeing
anything that exciting on the horizon and we made an editorial decision
to wait until after the first salvo of trade shows to see if there was
something we were missing and go from there. Well we’ve had 6 weeks or
so to settle into 2008, take a deep breath and scope out the industry.
There are some exciting things happening, such as the bid by
Microsoft to acquire Yahoo and the ever improving and proliferating
tools to put more and more and more (and more) content on the web. To
that end, we have asked two of our resident wizards, Analyst Amy Wohl and Contributing Editor Stan Coplan
to give us their take on the areas of mergers and acquisitions, SAAS
(software as a service), and all those neat development tools for the
web. All that being said, as far as hardware is concerned, I still feel
that 2008 will be….
Perspectives 
