The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
News of massive staff cuts from major enterprises are
becoming a daily occurrence and this year we can also expect to hear
news of brutal cuts to IT spending.
Given their budgetary constraints, organisations
are going to be looking for ways to cut not only hardware costs but
also power. Hey, it even looks good to be greening the organisation and
saving energy through server consolidation and downsizing the desktop.
2009 is likely to see a quickening of the adoption of SaaS and cloud
computing applications. Enterprises will be looking to save on the
upfront costs of software licenses.
The adoption of applications delivered by the web instead of residing
on the desktop will diminish the argument for the powerful local
workstations necessary to locally process compute intensive desktop
software. Inexpensive green thin clients will be the order of the day.
Likewise on the road unquitous wireless broadband and web services will
combine to make light low powered travel friendly netbooks the computer
of choice rather than a comparitively heavy high priced high powered
notebook.
Considering the needs of consumers as opposed to business users, it
seems natural that most consumers would only want a netbook as a
secondary computer. After all, for a consumer a computer is often not
just a web device. It is a games machine, a media centre and a home
server.
At work, a netbook is a compact money saving device that can access the
applications that run an enterprise for a fraction of the cost of the
expensive power hungry legacy desktop and laptop computers currently
littering offices. It may be an argument that many bosses will be
reluctant to accept but faced with cutting costs or closing down, they
may have no choice.
David Bass
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