Looming Disruptions to the Software Industry

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6 pointsbabyshake2 comments

I'm no one to assess Jason's gifts of prophecy, so he may be right on target as to what now "looms" as potential disruptor:

> Applications will be much less visible.

> Service applications will grow like wildfire.

> Applications will be seen more as components, or capabilities, than distinct and unique units of software.

> True object-oriented applications will become a reality.

> The conversation container will become the new AppStore.

I hope some HN vets will share their nominees, since I tend to bet on real disruptions coming from what's off the radar completely, rather than what's "looming."

The part I don't quite get here is how these "capabilities" will be able to integrate their data for things like reporting? Even if they are all "on the cloud," the data has to be related somehow or it can't really work.

The obvious workaround is to have black boxes that the parent app will pull from, then manipulate the data from there. That's only workable with smallish data sets. So what's the right answer?

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