What's Hot and Not in 2004?

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

January 10, 2004

2 Min Read
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Kevin Kempskie

HOT:
• Host-based Intrusion Prevention Systems
• Integrated Web Services Management and Security Solutions
• Broadband remote access service aggregators
• Managed IP VPNs - IPSec and SSL

NOT:
• Signature-based Intrusion Detection Systems
• XML Firewalls
• Single-source remote access connectivity providers
• Frame Relay and private line WANs





Mark Jass
HOT:
• Unemployement if all this offshoring continues.NOT:

• The economy if all this offshoring continues.





Dan Bishop
HOT:
• wireless business apps

NOT:
• standalone PDA apps





Mel Sumrell

HOT:
• Wireless (connectivity,apps)

NOT:
• SPAM





Sharvil Patel
HOT:
• Wireless networking and access, VPNs, fast internet access, security issues, globalization, PDAs, palms, work from home solutions, broadband

NOT:
• dial-up, costly copmuter parts, baseband, computer companies



Ken Bartke
HOT:
• WLAN's, Patch Management, SAN's.

NOT:


• MS 2003 Server





Dave Cooksey
HOT:

• Apple ComputerNOT:
• Microsoft





Dan Kwitchen


HOT:
• Link to "Call for Entries: What's Hot and What's Not for 2004"

NOT:
• Link to the "extended list of reader entries"





John Maxfield
HOT:
• Linux
• iSCSI
• email based worms

NOT:
• Micro$oft products with expiring support
• direct attached storage
• M$ Exchange





David Constantino
HOT:
VoIP and Wireless

NOT:
The fact that Fritz has to get a date off of the Web.



David Blomberg
HOT:
Linux, Cisco, PHP, Apache

NOT:


SCO, MS Security



David Feligno
HOT:

Spam, Anti-virus, Firewall/VPN

NOT:
Microsoft's Excuses



Dan Kwitchen
HOT:


Americans losing jobs...stupid

NOT:
Outsource countries gaining jobs...also stupid



Liz VanNoy


HOT:
RedHat , Novell-SuSe

NOT:
SCO, Microsoft



Hasan S. Alkhatib
HOT:
IPsec Peer-to-peer secure communicationNOT:
SSL secure remote access



Donna michaels
HOT:
Computer ads with the Hilton Sisters; outsourcing

NOT:
Computer ads with Dell Dudes; downsizing





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