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I'll happily blow some smoke. No guarantees - if you use this for anything serious you're insane. 1) SAAS will continue to grow and 2009 is the year where it w
by mixmax 18y ago
I'll happily blow some smoke. No guarantees - if you use this for anything serious you're insane.
1) SAAS will continue to grow and 2009 is the year where it will enter the mainstream with at least one IPO or major sell to a large established company.
2) Jquery will beat the other javascript frameworks and become the de facto standard for doing javascript.
3) Startups will stop focusing on B2C markets and move into the B2B market, primarily SAAS. Greentech will also surge ahead fueled be the Obama administration's policies and money.
4) Venture capitalism will be redefined. The mix of the plunging cost of doing a software startup and companies like Ycombinator and others will force VC's to move into greentech and away from software. VC's will face financial problems due to a slump in the market and at least one major VC will tank.
- lunaru 18y ago> 1) SAAS will continue to grow and 2009 > 3) Startups will stop focusing on B2C markets and move into the B2B market Tightly coupled, IMO. > 2) Jquery will beat the other javascript frameworks and become the de facto standard for doing javascript. I hope not. Love jQuery. Hate monopolies. This is in much the same way that Rails defines Ruby to some people - I hope jQuery doesn't define JavaScript in the future.
- TheWama 18y ago> Love jQuery. Hate monopolies. What's the meeaning of the word "monopoly" in a situation where breaking the monopoly means switching to another library? A library which, by the way, won't exist unless someone sees significant enough failings in the existing one to create an alternative, from scratch or through a fork. Barrier to entry is the property which enables abusive monopolies, and in the open source world, is there such a thing?
- yummyfajitas 18y agoMonopoly is probably the wrong word, but open source projects often do hit a local maxima which is far from optimal. Consider emacs, for instance. Elisp sucks in many ways, and we could probably build a better emacs if we started from scratch. But it will be very tough to get from here to there.
- jaspertheghost 18y agoI disagree with 3). If anything, entertainment websites will increase in usage because entertainment tends to be counter cyclical.