This week we’re back with our 2nd (or 3rd depending on how you count ‘em) wacky predictions show. John and I welcome back the wacky predictions panel from last year, Dave Rosenberg and Matt Ray for a loose and fun screed-out of crazy things that might happen, most based on absolutely no good sense, rationality, or anything to indicate that you should taken them seriously.
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Show notes:
- We start by review the 2009 wacky predictions (based on show notes), a surprising amount of which came to some form of fruition. I must not have put the wackier ones in the show notes.
- Microsoft kills Windows Mobile. This makes us layout: Microsoft forks Android.
- Microsoft’s retails stores will be successful.
- Amazon spins off a private cloud. As part of this, Dave says IBM gets a a cloud, Coté says Amazon partners with IBM or HP (or Snorkle?) to do a container box cloud.
- VMWare ships a private cloud in a container.
- The cult of the physical, a virtualization backlash.
- Unified computing thing seems popular
- Big competitor to Visio – the rise of hand-drawn diagrams
- Somebody buys Rackspace, Microsoft or Cisco, or VMWare/EMC.
- Dave: Eucalyptus is not going to have a business – something is going to have to have to happen. Cloudera will have a hard time.
- On the NoSQL camp in general: they’ll have to take on traditional BI tools to “have a shot.” Matt says they’ll get co-opted by existing vendors.
- Geo-location causes a mass controversy. Social networking privacy problems.
- RFID tags on everything – CueCat 2.0 with Google scanning code.
- A says revolt against celebrity, reality-tv driven culture. Meat-and-potatoes 2.0 – but John says this is more 2011.
- Return of textile manufacturing to the US…but unfortunately it’ll be domestic robots.
- Buffalo becomes the io mega of the 2010’s.
- Apple won’t do a netbook, but they’ll do a big ass iPod Touch.
- Kazookeylele boot-straps that domestic manufacturing.
- Twitter: gets revenue, coffee machine gets Twitter.
- Google starts to get on thin anti-trust issues.
- Snorkle whacky predictions – Microsoft buys MySQL.
- Either the death of the $500M+ acquisition, or $1B becomes the acquisition floor.
- BMC buys Puppet and Chef both. Cisco buys lots of stuff, as does IBM. HP gets acquired.
- Someone tries to acquire Canonical, doesn’t happen – then goes to CentOS.
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