Enterprise's top ranks may have gelled, but someone will buy Siebel.(Back talk)

Manufacturing Business Technology, May, 2005 by Hill, Sidney, Jr.

The best thing about being an information technology journalist is that the industry constantly changes. It makes the job both interesting and challenging.

Historically, the industry's most significant events revolved around technical innovation: first, the emergence of the PC, which jumpstarted a new age of rising corporate productivity; and now the Internet, which is still changing the world.

Today, wireless computing is big, but some would argue that real innovation has hit a wall. It's tough to dismiss that argument when you consider that RFID--the chief form of wireless computing being pitched to manufacturers--is 50 years old, most of its current users are still considered early adopters, and very few of them have figured out how to...