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Conclusion

8 September, 2015 - 15:12

In April 2005, on the fortieth anniversary of his influential article in Electronics Magazine, Gordon Moore predicted that the ability to pack more and more transistors onto a chip (Moore’s Law) will continue to hold true for at least a few more decades (Niccolai, 2005). Networking technologies (including computing devices like routers as well as software tools and protocols that help networks work well) have also improved dramatically in the last few decades. In contrast, tools and methods for developing software applications improved at a far slower rate in the eighties and nineties, but the pace has accelerated recently and, with the advent of web services (see Chapter xxx), is expected to continue to gain. Taken together, improvements in foundation technologies and methodologies for computing, networking and software development will give rise to many new IS applications in the coming years, just as these foundation technologies and methodologies gave rise to P2P file sharing. Smart managers and effective companies will harness these new applications in the service of key business processes and competitive initiatives, while ineffective companies and managers will fail to recognize or capitalize on their potential.