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2008 Prediction: "Net Neutrality Will Take an Even Worse Beating"

"Disparity between bandwidth haves and have-nots will grow," says Joshua Allen

Dec. 30, 2007 10:15 AM

In SYS-CON's annual round-up of technology predictions, Joshua Allen, a Microsoft Senior Evangelist, issues a worrisome warning: 'Disparity between bandwidth haves and have-nots will grow. Net neutrality will take an even worse beating in 2008 than 2007.'

Allen's predictions come in the end-of-year SYS-CON.com feature "Where's AJAX, SOA and Virtualization Headed in 2008?" - which also includes predictions from: Tim Bray, Sun; Dr Adam Kolawa, Parasoft; Eric Newcomer, IONA Technologies; Bill Roth, BEA Systems; Brad Abrams, Microsoft; Kevin Hoffman, iPhone Developer's Journal; Ian Thain, Sybase; Yakov Fain, Farata Systems.

Read Joshua Allen's's 2008 predictions in full here.

Published Dec. 30, 2007 — Reads 14,553
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