Marginalized technology

06/18/2006

The latest issue of ACM Queue has a feature on the rise and fall of CORBA, and says in part:

“Given that only a few years ago, CORBA was considered the cutting edge of middleware that promised to revolutionize e-commerce, it is surprising to see how quickly the technology was marginalized.“

When we give talks about keeping your career up to date, not everyone believes that a hot technology today could be extinct tomorrow. But it happens, again and again.

What hot, coffee-inspired technology will be the next big thing that gets shunted aside?