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My punt is that Apple is going to make a big enterprise play in the next 2-3 years. Time is ripe, and it can be done without a big investment in capital. Wait until Steve Jobs publicly denounces enterprise IT as a business with no future. He'll be right, in more ways than one.
"-enterprise IT as a business with no future. He'll be right, in more ways than one." Can you clarify? Because that seems very misinformed. Unless you mean on-premise deployments, which has been on the way out for years. With SaaS + cloud computing, Enterprise IT is just starting to get interesting again.
In 10 years time, the "IT Department" virtually won't exist at most small-mid size businesses.
I think a lot of business software is going to be taken off-the-peg, or plug-boarded from open source software as interfaces approach ubiquity and organisations like government, banking and b2b start to expose consistent "APIs". It's already happening now.
We also have gen X and Y moving into senior management and the internet generation actually moving into work. Computer skills are getting to the point of being virtually innate.
Acquiring computer equipment will be analogous in business to buying a photocopier or some other office equipment.