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Edition covers '2008 and beyond'. Gartner's stated count: 10 (press release: '10 key predictions'). Found in public source: 10 top predictions. Client report: "Gartner's Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2008 and Beyond: Going Green and Self-Healing" (paywalled). gartner.com returns 403 to scripted fetches; text read from the Internet Archive snapshot listed in sources. Egham, UK release. Report title from the gartner.com documents listing (search result), not the release. Quotes are the prediction headline sentences as printed in the press release; body text is not stored.
By 2009, more than one third of IT organizations will have one or more environmental criteria in their top six buying criteria for IT-related goods.
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By 2010, 75 per cent of organisations will use full life cycle energy and CO2 footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.
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By 2010, end-user preferences will decide as much as half of all software, hardware and services acquisitions made by IT.
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By 2011, Apple will double its U.S. and Western Europe unit market share in Computers.
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By 2011, early technology adopters will forgo capital expenditures and instead purchase 40 per cent of their IT infrastructure as a service.
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By 2011, suppliers to large global enterprises will need to prove their green credentials via an audited process to retain preferred supplier status.
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Through 2011, the number of 3-D printers in homes and businesses will grow 100-fold over 2006 levels.
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By 2012, 50 per cent of traveling workers will leave their notebooks at home in favour of other devices.
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By 2012, 80 per cent of all commercial software will include elements of open-source technology.
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By 2012, at least one-third of business application software spending will be as service subscription instead of as product license.
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