PwC’s Menlo Park-based Global Technology Center has released the latest volume of their technology forecast, this one focused on emerging patterns of Internet computing.
“Earlier this year we predicted Web services will take longer to
gain
acceptance in inter-enterprise use than anticipated because of
unresolved
problems with reliability, security and business models,” said Eric M.
Berg,
managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Technology Centre
and
editor-in-chief of the Forecast. “Our latest finding is that the
development
of grid computing architectures, protocols and middleware by the
research
community is likely to lead directly to solutions that will overcome
these
obstacles and allow Web services deployment to proceed.”