Business and enterprise software, and other applications that help a business run

Do you ever wonder where business computing is going? I don't mean the sort of transaction processing that happens on mainframes. No, I mean the kind that you and I do every day. The processing of words, the spreading of sheets, and so on. Things have been in the status of quo for a very long time, and in thinking hard about it I don't think that it is going to stay there.

There are certain trends that lead me to believe that a cathartic change is coming. One is the trend towards ever smaller devices, with ever denser chips, all in compliance with Moore's Law. Another is the trend towards more and more use of the internet and the Web. Another is the repackaging of marketing and networking to more and more personal levels. The way we use computers for business is changing, and it may be changing more quickly than we think.

We are going to spend some time in the coming days looking at these changes, and examining where we think the “personal” side of business computing is headed in the fairly near future. These are changes that will affect all of us, from marketing to IT, from admin assistants to the boardroom. These changes are coming, and we need to start thinking about them so that they don't catch us by surprise.

We hope you come along for the ride as we ponder them