Crystal Ball Gazing

I've been watching things on the side lines lately and I thought I'd do some crystal ball gazing.

Firstly, I forecast that Apple will likely have their five year share rise, reversed in roughly the same period.

Google will also likely face a strong competitor to Android within five years; the community will get fed up with the "closed" way that Google interpret, "open" and things will move off in another direction.

Skype will likely stop supporting Linux now that Microsoft have their hands on it.

Adobe will probably be gone in five years.

If Microsoft manage to really tie motherboard bios chips to specific "trusted" versions of windows, then the world will likely rally against them and that could prove to be a major hit in the bank ballance.

Intel will see their market share reduced to much smaller margins as the ARM chips work their way through the laptop market and in to desktops and entry level corporate servers. The power/performance/cost is just too attractive. Even MS have ported Windows 8 to ARM.

Oracle will likely loose out big style as customers of the Sun systems move to RHEL.

So, we'll look back on this in five years time and see if any of my predictions come to pass. Set your alarm now!