Most SMBs will be virtual by 2020

Outsourced business services and hosted applications will be the norm for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) by the year 2020, according to a report by the Social Issues Research Centre. While 2020's always-on Generation C – C for content, connectivity, creativity, collaboration and/or communication, says SIRC - will be more …

[amanfromMars]

IT Entrepreneurs...... Virtual Future Beings

""The open source community already does this, with the potential for super-communities," he said" ....

Yes, QuITe .... aka Rule and Leadership.

IT is much more than just potential though for IT is Presently the Current bringing in the Changes for Global Virtualisation.

[Peter]

Inverse Christmas Turkey syndrome??

OK so Rackspace sell online services. This hardly makes them unbiased...

I don't dispute an increasing use of these services by SMB, but I still doubt that any sane person who has ever dealt with the average (let alone sub-average) hosting company would put their business (i.e. all their data etc) in the hands of a third party.