| About InfoWorld : Advertise : Subscribe : Contact Us : Awards : Events : Store |
 |
||||
|
||||
 | ||||
 |
|
|||
 | ||||
|
|
|
||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 NEWSBack from the grave By Stephanie Sanborn December 8, 2000 1:01 pm PT Technologies once pronounced dead are finding new life, thanks to the Internet and evolving business needs
 FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, technologies once touted as "the next big thing" often -- and sometimes quickly -- find themselves dead and buried by the high-tech industry. But some do come back to regain a good piece of the industry acclaim they once enjoyed, although they may be resurrected in a slightly different form.Some technology revivals are due to the Internet's proliferation, which offers an unprecedented level of communication and networking. Others, such as the much-maligned push technology, simply needed more time to mature and find a use in the business world. "There's definitely a fashion cycle to the technology industry," says Michael Goldberger, principal and co-founder of Midior Consulting, in Cambridge, Mass. "Different approaches come in and out of favor. It's a constant tug-of-war between centralizing things to keep them manageable and distributing things to take advantage of all the power that's available. That's probably something that will never settle down." Other technologies perpetually swing between popularity and disinterest, such as artificial intelligence and other technology concepts that have appeared in a variety of products throughout the years. "With the advancement of technology in general, you're going to see some of these earlier technologies reincarnated," explains Gene Phifer, vice president and research director at Gartner's Internet strategies and e-business infrastructure practice, in Stamford, Conn. "It would be a wise thing for some smart people to go off and kind of look through the history of technology and things that were there and disappeared, because [those technologies] may wind up having new homes in reincarnated versions, and making the right investments there could be very beneficial." Continued... Pushing back from oblivion In the wake of Napster The iron Web Other technologies cheating death Send comments to Assistant Features Editor Stephanie Sanborn (stephanie_sanborn@infoworld.com). SPONSORED WHITE PAPERS 
SPONSORED LINKS
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
