Yes, it’s that time of the year… Let’s tell you what I think 2009 will bring. 

Windows 7. That’s one. The replacement of Vista should become available. Should we expect a lot from it? I guess so. Vista hasn’t seen the great support Microsoft surely hoped it would get. Many organisations will be skipping Vista in the hope Windows 7 will be better. But will it be better? I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but the reviews I’ve read are promising. The end of Q2, or maybe the beginning of Q3 will see the release. Consumers will adopt it pretty quickly (since they can’t avoid it when buying new computers). Businesses will probably start adopting Windows 7 after the first servicepack comes out. I expect to see that before the end of 2009 which means that the real start of the race towards market domination starts at the beginning of 2010. Is this a good time to move to an alternative platform?

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Ok, I know, Many have gone before me and came up with a definition of Web 4.0. I could add a ton of links, but won’t. This link will do:http://www.google.nl/search?q=”web+4.0″. Check that out, but read on first…

Let’s start the counting. Web 1.0 was the original web. It’s still alive and kicking today, don’t worry. This is the web where those with either money or a geeky mind could put content online for you to read. Read-only, unidirectional web. If you wanted interaction, you would have to use other protocols than HTTP on which the web is build. Use ICQ (still alive!) or e-mail or IRC (Yup, I’m that old…). There are the egroups (now Yahoo) and some bulletin-boards (that’s what BB stands for remember?) but that was it. It would take Web2.0 to get to a Read-Write web. Thanks to Ted Lessig for letting us know that! How about http://youtube.com where you, yes you, can create and publish your content. How about blogs, how about social websites where you create your content on your profile. How about http://flickr.com and http://picasa.com. That’s Web2.0.
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Slow? Yes this site is slow. Why? Well it’s running on a slow server. A low energyconsumption, slow server. Yes, A green server. 7 Watts isn’t that much, so it’s very green.

or is it…

Let’s see.

- in total, 7 watts isn’t that much for a server, so it’s green

- but if you look at the number of visitors per watt, hmmm, not so green at all

- This means I need to get more hits, more visitors

- that would mean however that the site might get even slower

- or maybe go down alltogether… that’s not very green, rather it’s black…

So what is it? Green, or not green?

Cheers