In the business space clearly we see TelePresence, video communications and visual networking being the next opportunity, moving them into perhaps B2C communications where it can transform healthcare, education. All of those applications are in consumer as well. So that’s one big area. The second big growth opportunity for us is what we call collaboration.
Collaboration, really I think we are just scratching the surface with that. But if we think about collaboration and having virtual teams that can connect and work real time on a topic depending on their expertise, and then disband once that project finishes, allows a lot of flexibility in how companies can utilize resources. So we have multiple solutions in that area with unified communications and WebEx, and solutions like that, which we want to extend more as a platform and bring further Web 2.0 capabilities on to our unified communications platform. We see that as driving a lot of productivity within businesses, and across businesses; so it is a second area of huge growth potential that we see.
The third has to do with what we call Virtualization. We have seen the deployment of virtualization which kind of began with server virtualization. Our focus is more to extend that into the data centre, and virtualize the data centre and eventually lead into cloud computing. Where we can have flexibility and agility in terms of how applications get written and deployed. I think fundamentally that is going to change IT as we know it in the next five years or so.
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