Seeing the huge uptake of business and middleware open source technologies, at Financial Services companies. I predict that by 2011 all banks will run on Open Source.
By 2012 We Will also see the first Core Banking Open Source Platform **
In case anyone has interest to write one, I will be joining in!
The nice thing about predictions is, later I can just " opps " sorry I wrote the wrong yet. Although I do truly believe looking at the strengths of products like Alfresco, SugarCRM, OrangHR, Compiere ERP and others this will most definitely be the case.
On top we are looking at middelware and SOA Technologies. Products like openESB and MySQL are so extreemly strong for little and no investment. openESB is driving essentially the JBI2 standard, which will allow all java architectures to tap in right where the money is.
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