For upcoming 2007: Interesting Technologies with good prospects

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iSER (iSCSI Extensions for RDMA)
many interesting and new linux desktops
example: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/3d-linux.html
http://kvm.sourceforge.net/
OpenIPMI : http://openipmi.sourceforge.net
GPL to opensolaris (instead of CDDL).
Split Snapshots (http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~liuba/pubs/thresher-usenix06.pdf)
RFID
??? (feel free to add...)
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