How would you rank the items on the list? It really depends. Different companies are going to have different pain points. More and more, as we move to the mobile stuff, battery life has become a bigger and bigger issue. I think easier use of open software -- so it installs, operates and [can be managed so it] works in an enterprise -- is going to be one of the big areas.

What open software in particular? Certainly, Linux is one.

You don't think that Linux is enterprise-worthy? It still takes too much tweaking to really get up to where you want it be. Some people have that down, but especially in the small-to-midsize marketplace without big IT staffs, that's an issue. The one thing that is going to be really interesting is OpenOffice. Everybody says that buying Microsoft Office is expensive, but the retraining cost to go to another package is astronomical. So I don't know how you work all that out.

Is there anything on this list that is IBM-specific? The Parallel File System [a high-performance cluster file system] is one area we are seeing a lot of interest in.

Another one is the cell processor for high-performance computing. Granted, most enterprises don't view themselves as HPC organizations, [but], in fact, more and more of them are.