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SJ Mercury: What awaits us (maybe) in new year

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 5, 1999

“I’ll forgo prognostications in favor of prospects. Herewith is
a non-comprehensive list of things I hope will happen this
year.”–Dan Gillmor

“A revolution called “open source” will become much more
popular in large enterprises and in the consumer market. IBM and
other major companies will offer soup-to-nuts open-source support
to their big corporate information-systems customers, who will
increasingly realize that it’s at least as good as the commercial
competition. (Probability: 0.6)”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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