> How will the Software industry transform in 2005 and beyond?

Information Week article on “Future of Software” points the direction.

Componentization, Vendor consolidation in mature segments such as ERP, origin of next cycle of new applications , Web services fuelling the growth of utility based pricing models for software products etc.

However, a few things seem to remain unchanged. Foremost of them seems to be software complexity, Software though componentized for flexible deployment models will become more and more complex during development. Others may be, Windows Vs Linux Battle, Mutli Site development models etc.