Best wishes for a great year 2006 to all of you. That the new year could bring happyness, peace, freedom, and wellness to everyone, around the world. Or at least, that things will work out a little better than in 2005...
On the tech side, I really hope that...
- Borland can make the right decisions (thanks to the new CEO) and help Delphi prosper
- Google keeps delivering valuable tools for free (is their Office suite coming?)
- Skype and similar communication tools shorted the distance among people and let me/us all telecommute a little more (and put some nonsense telecoms out of business)
- Microsoft figures out how to server their customers real needs (rather than Bill Gates' ones) delivering good OSes and apps for their real price
- Linux makes further inroads on servers and desktops alike
- database vendors stop locking people into their platforms
- XML and Web Services fuel a new IT renaissance (so that we'll get back to having more work and batter paid jobs)
- web development with AJAX and other technologies helps us deliver better apps in a shorted time, having some fun alongside
- open source foundations (mozilla with firefox, open office, firebird and many more) prosper
- and, finally, someone figures out an antispam mechanism that works making the internet a nice place again, he'll deserver to get rich for sure!
Jokes aside, bet wishes to you all. Tech stuff will come and go as usual, but that not the most important thing in our lives... Peace to you and your families for years to come, and best wishes that the next year sees some of your really important dreams become true. See you next year...