Our friends at Gartner have released their latest set of IT predictions.  Full release here.  Here’s a few highlights: 

1. By 2012, 50 per cent of traveling workers will leave their notebooks at home in favour of other devices.
2. By 2012, 80 per cent of all commercial software will include elements of open-source technology.
3. By 2012, at least one-third of business application software spending
   will be as service subscription instead of as product license.
4. By 2011, early technology adopters will forgo capital expenditures and
   instead purchase 40 per cent of their IT infrastructure as a service.
5. By 2010, end-user preferences will decide as much as half of all software, hardware and services acquisitions made by IT.

Reinforces many of the IT trends we are seeing.  I personally can’t wait until I can leave my notebook at home although I think there are hurdles there.  My Blackberry works great to monitor, read, and respond but isn’t all that great to do things like writing and number crunching.  We’ll see…