执行副总裁兼高德纳研究员Daryl Plummer表示:“从我们的研究领域中选出的最引人注目和最关键的预测，今年的趋势和主题表明了对个人、环境和购买和销售IT服务和技术的替代方式的强烈关注。”我发现有趣的是与环境相关的预测所占的比例。在这篇文章中突出显示的12个问题中，有3个是环境问题，也就是25% !与往年的预测相比，这是一个前所未有的变化。如果这还不能说明我们的社会重心在向何处转移，那我就不知道还有什么了。我们都听过关于环境趋势的周期性争论，但是“Gartner”的预测在高管和IT专业人士在2008年及以后将采取哪些行动方面具有更大的权威。下面我总结了12个预测。欲了解更多信息，或完整阅读本文，只需点击下面的链接。•到2011年，苹果将在美国和西欧的电脑市场份额翻一番。•到2012年，50%的出差员工将把笔记本电脑留在家里，转而使用其他设备。•到2012年，80%的商业软件将包含开源技术元素。 • By 2012, at least one-third of business application software spending will be as service subscription instead of as product license. • By 2011, early technology adopters will forgo capital expenditures and instead purchase 40 percent of their IT infrastructure as a service. • By 2009, more than one-third of IT organizations will have one or more environmental criteria in their top six buying criteria for IT-related goods. • By 2010, 75 percent of organizations will use full life cycle energy and carbon footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria. • By 2011, suppliers to large global enterprises will need to prove their green credentials via an audited process to retain preferred supplier status. • By 2010, end-user preferences will decide as much as half of all software, hardware and services acquisitions made by IT. • Through 2011, the number of 3-D printers in homes and businesses will grow 100-fold over 2006 levels. Full article can be found here: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=593207 Reuse…Save up to 90% off list price and save the environment too when you shop atUsedCisco.com作者:约书亚·莱维特(Joshua Levitt通过电子邮件注册接收Green Your Network博客
