Ted Neward on 2006

In keeping with tradition, Ted Neward has made 14 tech predictions for 2006 and even a few that extend into 2007. In the list he admits that a couple are more things that he’d like to see happen then real predictions but in each case Ted offers an opinion that is backed by some interesting insight or view point.

Teds take on scripting languges and Ruby in particular (is Ruby simply a scripting language?) is that they will hit peak interest in 2006. He is also predicting that Ruby project will fail (and that failure will most likely come from a very large Ruby project that is currently being under-taken by a fairly significant consulting firm) and in doing so release an anti-Ruby backlash.
same story, different technology, same result. By 2007 the Ruby backlash will have begun.
In the same list Ted predicts that Vista will slip and Mustang (JDK 6.0) will ship leaving the Microsofties looking at WinFX (which will ship) and the Java crowd complaining that "it sucks".

In his "long-shot dream", JBoss becomes insolvent leaving the code base to developers with more altruistic motivations. Have you made any tech predictions for 2006?


Threaded replies
· Ted Neward on 2006 by Kirk Pepperdine on Wed Jan 04 07:05:23 EST 2006
· things won't move so fast by Karl Brodowsky on Thu Jan 05 18:58:24 EST 2006
· Ted Neward on 2006 by Manoj Kochhar on Tue Jan 10 16:10:44 EST 2006
· Java as a platform rather than Language by paul browne on Fri Jan 13 06:06:52 EST 2006
· Hey you forgot one thing ! by Jean-Daniel Gamache on Thu Mar 16 16:12:19 EST 2006
· parrot, perl, CGI and Java by Karl Brodowsky on Fri Mar 17 13:01:54 EST 2006