Our Gartner Predicts 2006 weblog discussion will be drawing to a close soon, but contributions are still welcome.

We have had some stimulating responses. For example, Roman Virdi believes mobile networks might be replaced by Wireless VOIP while David H. Deans thinks Telcos are so ‘marketing challenged’ many of their new services never reach the mainstream On the question of employee owned and maintained PCs Christian Kesper thinks our prediction is wrong but he concedes it may work out for other devices such as Blackberries.

I was not surprised to see a number of comments on our IT specialist job market reduction prediction. The projected rate of decline raised eyebrows and brought some disagreement, while a couple of contributors seek more guidance on what they should do about it. John Paquette offers his own suggested solutions for both companies and individuals.

On an optimistic note at the start of 2006, Braam Broodryk and a contributor named only Wilfred, seem to agree IT can contribute to saving lives in healthcare as our analysts suggest. Nishanth Nottath is even able raise a positive note about regulation in the banking industry when he suggests a combination of 'intelligent' technologies and BPO will reduce the cost of compliance over time.

Thanks to those who have contributed so far.