Posted by: altabel on: October 31, 2011
According to Gartner’s predictions, by 2012, 50% of traveling workers will leave their notebooks at home in favor of other devices such as iPad, Tablets, and Smartphones. By 2012, 80% of all commercial software will include elements of open-source technology. Many open-source technologies are mature, stable and well supported. Open Source is here to stay. [...]
Posted by: altabel on: September 22, 2011
Smart phones are already changing many markets in the IT industry. Mobile gaming represents one of the fastest growing segments of the digital games market, and potential for future growth remains strong as more consumers are using smartphones for games of all types, including the increasingly popular mobile game apps. Is the mobile gaming industry [...]
Posted by: altabel on: July 7, 2011
The debate on the success of outsourcing as an industry seems to last endlessly. Over the years outsourcing contracts underwent a lot of changes – as the result we now see more multi-sourcing engagements and smaller focused contracts. In fact outsourcing contracts shrank in length or value per contract, but the relationship with the client [...]
Posted by: altabel on: June 9, 2010
Cloud computing is all the rage. The problem is that everyone seems to have a different definition Further to discussion of this topic I’d like to quote some interesting opinions of LinkedIn members who left their comments to the question in the title of this post. “It’s a major trend but not a transformation, because [...]
Posted by: altabel on: May 20, 2010
I’ve recently asked a question on LI about top 5 IT Industry Trends. Cloud computing was mentioned practically in each response. So this points to the fact that cloud computing is all the rage. But why is cloud computing a major transformation of the IT/software industry and not just another overhyped trend? Firstly, cloud computing [...]
