OpenSolaris Community Will Beat Linux in 2007
Paul Murphy over at ZD Net has made a couple of "predictable predictions" about IT in 2007 and my favourite has got to be number 4:4. By the end of the year the OpenSolaris community will be widely recognised as larger and more active than the Linux community -and every competing OS developer community except Microsoft's will have copied the key ideas including its organisational structure, the core provisions in the community development license, and Solaris specific technologies including ZFS and Dtrace. Now I don't think this will come true (especially with the likes of Ubuntu around) but it would be awesome if Paul gets proven right. He then goes on to mention people's growing concern about identity theft. This made me think of my own prediction for 2007: Continue reading ►