Data Warehousing in a Flat World: Trends for 2006

Good read here. I don't agree with all of it but the author has alot of insight.

Data Warehousing in a Flat World: Trends for 2006: "The coming year will show what data warehousing looks like now that the world is flat. Data warehousing trends in a flat world will be driven by open source platforms for data management, offshore everything and the commoditization of infrastructure through relatively low cost servers (which, if they were any less expensive, would be disposable)."