Tech 2009

I'm writing down a couple of notes about what I'm going to expect this year from an IT (strictly personal and professional) point of view. Two years ago I wrote about multicore processors and new operating systems, I was expecting RIA application to be the main trend on the web side (google stuff, facebook, linked-in...), while I've mistaken about Vista... I was expecting a huge interest and a great leap foreward, with new .NET based application, but Vista has been quite a flop.
Actually in these years I worked mainly on the old WinXP, and did something interesting under Linux.
In 2009 I will sure increase my activity under Linux and I hope to start studing Mac OS X; I think that the new releases of the Linux kernel with ext4 will renew the interest on file systems, and the "Btrfs vs Zfs" affair will be the major topic on the server side.
Again on the server side, I will sure broaden my knowledge of PostgreSQL (impressive... a really impressive dbms!): this year I will try to develop the project of my object oriented repository based on a relational dbms, hoping to see soon some innovative OS based on a OODB instead of a file system.
C++09 (or 0x)? Let's see, but I'm quite excited about that! Hope compilers will appear as soon as possible!
What else? Of course, more processing power, new cpus, bigger storages, both hd and ssd... I am also thinking about replacing one of my old desktops with a iMac, but I'm waiting for Snow Leopard to see if it's worth the price.
Summarizing: because of The Economic Crisis, there won't be great revolutions; Win7 will be what Vista should have been 2 years ago, Os X will gain more and more users, like GNU/Linux.
So my keyword for 2009 is "consolidation".