What is pushing IT innovations

Looking at the true real new applications in the past year it occurs to me that it is not business software where all innovation is happening. If we have a look at the productportfolio of IBM, Microsoft, Sun and Oracle there aren't many new applications. We have a better infrastructure but nothing new for the end-user. Google is currently the most innovative company and most of its products are targeted at the consumer, not the big business.

We don't need the capital of the big business anymore to sponsor new technology. Infrastructure costs are very low and small startups can implement their ideas with little costs. Open source software taps into a pool of bright and very driven community of developers.