10.5. Research Directions

Over the coming years enterprise-scale solutions will be impacted by a wide variety of new developments in software, hardware, and related technologies. These include at least the following:

  • Continued improvements in hardware price/performance, together with miniaturization of hardware devices, is leading toward greater use of handheld devices, Internet appliances, and wearable computers.

  • Significant advances in the communications infrastructure that will revolutionize distributed computing platforms in use toward pervasive broadband high-throughput networks. The high level of interest in standards such as the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an indication of these developments.

  • Mergers and alliances between computer, ...

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