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Which developments will transform IT in the coming year? The InfoWorld Test Center shines a light on the top tech trends of
2006, reveals what they portend for 2007, and selects the best hardware and software of the year in 40 product categories.
2007 Technology of the Year Award winners
Forty-one products garnered top honors from the InfoWorld Test Center. Find all the winners in our slideshow series
Technologies
SOA: The great shopping spree
Big SOA fish gobble smaller ones as the focus shifts to governance
Virtualization: The road to production
VMware and a supporting cast lead VMs into datacenters
Open Source: Key projects turn pro
Commercial software vendors back open software for proprietary ends
Hardware: Multicore rolls on
AMD, Intel, IBM, and Sun continue the innovation
Software Development: Simplicity tops the agenda
Lightweight and service-oriented approaches combine sophistication and ease
Web 2.0: New technologies greet the enterprise
RSS, wikis, social nets, and search weave a more collaborative Web
Applications: SaaS breaks down the walls
Hosted applications continue to remove enterprise objections
Storage: Hardware takes a backseat
Intelligent data management grabs the wheel of the enterprise
Networking: Convergence is at hand
Maturation of 10-Gig, combined monitoring, and built-in defenses top developments
Security: A year of reassessment
Anti-virus nears breaking point, IPS tests limits, and the worm still turns
Plus
Dual-core desktop blues
Advances in end-user hardware outstrip software support
Dawn of the Web office
Productivity applications are being remade in the Web's image
Microsoft ends 2006 with a bang
Office, Exchange, and Vista highlight a prolific year in Redmond
Apple's Intel migration
The leap to dual-core Woodbridge sets the stage for Leopard
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