The trick will be to allow the enterprises to move data into and out of company enterprise networks as freely as they do now internally. I believe that will happen in five years.
Predictor: Lynch, Daniel C.
Prediction, in context:In an interview for InfoWorld in 1994, Jayne Levin, editor of The Internet Letter, asks Daniel C. Lynch to tell his five-year forecast for enterprise networks. Lynch says: ”Forceast? You want me to forceast? Sure, five years ago Interop and NetWorld were just smallish shows for highly trained nerds. Now almost all enterprises use TCP/IP and NetWare internally. The trick will be to allow the enterprises to move data into and out of company enterprise networks as freely as they do now internally. I believe that will happen in five years.”
Biography:Daniel C. Lynch was the founder of CyberCash Inc. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: InfoWorld
Title, headline, chapter name: To Dream the Internetworking Dream
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Vol. 16, Issue 18, Page S72 ISSN: 01996649
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