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Editor's List: What's Hot and Not in 2004?

NWC editors offer their thoughts on what technologies, people and companies they think will be both "hot" and "not" commodities in 2004.
January 10, 2004

Fritz Nelson, Group President and Publisher

  • Hot: graphical keyboards on handhelds
  • Not: graffiti
  • Hot: vendor user conferences
  • Not: big trade shows with dancing parrots
  • Hot: friendster.com
  • Not: blind dates
  • Hot: IM sex
  • Not: phone sex
  • Hot: utility computing
  • Not: distributed applications

Michael J. DeMaria, Associate Technology Editor

  • Hot: Legal litigation. Monetary inflation is down, but lawyer inflation is up.
  • Not: SCO Jokes. They'll be overplayed and worn out in 3 months max.

Sean Doherty, Technology Editor

  • Hot: Videoconferencing over IP, but it doesn't come with extra bandwidth.
  • Not: Digital Convergence. [Options] "Are we there yet?"; "Wake me up when it's over"; "Play it again, Sam."

Peter Morrissey, Contributing Technology Editor

  • Hot: Open, SIP enabled phone systems and the rich applications that they enable.
  • Not: Locking into VoIP technology masquerading as open, but more proprietary than the legacy phone systems that it replaces.

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