Technologies that will reshape software industry for next 5 years

According to market research firm Gartner (www.gartner.com), business IT applications will increasingly reflect the popularity of "disruptive" technologies such as social networks, Web mashups, and cloud computing—technologies that cause major changes in the "accepted way of doing things."

Gartner released its list of the technologies it believes will reshape the business landscape for the next five years:

1) multi-core and hybrid processors;

2) virtualization and fabric computing;

3) social networks and social software;

4) cloud computing and cloud platforms;

5) Web mashups;

6) user interface;

7) ubiquitous computing;

8) contextual computing;

9) augmented reality;

10) and semantics.