Press release: “Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt…The top 10 strategic technologies for 2008 include: Green IT; Unified Communications; Business Process Modeling; Metadata Management; Virtualization 2.0; Mashup & Composite Apps; Web Platform & WOA; Computing Fabric; Real World Web; Social Software.”