Asia's IT heads, industry newsmakers and analysts reflect on 2006 and share their predictions for 2007.

	"Although we have made significant improvements, roaming charges in most parts of Asia are still considered high." Ann Emilson, president and country manager, Ericsson
	"The currency of this era is in the exchange of ideas...You have to decide between isolation and participation." Denis Heraud, president, Asia-Pacific, Sun Microsystems
	"Individual IT systems today are already highly efficient, so the way to get your hands on those diminishing returns is to make the various systems work better with one other." Brenton Smith, area manager for Asia South, CA
	"There will also be more offshoring to lower-cost countries like Malaysia, China, India, and the Philippines." Chong Yoke Sin, CEO, NCS
	"The changing role of the operating system is a big issue that will start to attract real attention." Jim Lenox, country manager, Asia South, VMware
	"The process of liberating users from the shackles of a desktop will redefine the IT department in the year to come." Kurt Roemer, chief security officer, Citrix Systems
	"Our options for online activities are expanding exponentially, yet paradoxically, in carrying out these transactions our confidence is diminishing." Eric Hoh, vice president, Asia South region, Symantec
	"IT managers often don't know what software has been installed or where it was installed." Raymond Lee, regional director, Southeast Asia, Adobe
	"I think that we can all agree that location-based services has some years to go before it reallly starts any hockey stick growth." Richard Robinson, CEO, Dada Asia
	"The biggest challenge is attracting and retaining good manpower as the economy seems to be picking up." Dr Colin Quek, CIO, Raffles Medical Group
	"The success or failure (of fixed-mobile convergence) will be determined by user acceptance and not networking technology." Mathia Nalappan, vice president, Asia-Pacific, Nokia Enterprise Solutions
	"There must be a diminishing of the division between IT and business, and this can only be achieved when IT assets are measured by the service they can provide to the organization." Dwain Kinghorn, chief technology officer, Altiris
	"We expect to see 'fast rises and faster demises' among new IT startups in future." Michael Warrilow, director, Hydrasight
	"The industry needs to collectively work harder at reducing the environmental impact associated with technology." Anthony McMahon, vice president for enterprise servers and storage, HP Asia-Pacific and Japan
	"China will continue to expand its service offerings and scale but start to hit its constraints in 2007." Michael Rehkopf, partner, TPI Asia-Pacific
	"Users will be expecting more out of their RIA (rich Internet application) and Web applications." Andy Chun, associate professor, City University of Hong Kong
	"There's no compelling reason to own [a PDA] today; there are only excuses." -- Nathaniel Forbes, director, Forbes Calamity Prevention
	"We are in a strong economy at the moment, and one consequence of this is a tight labor market." -- Dennis Malone, head of technology architecture, Group Operations Technology, OCBC Bank
	"We saw increased demand for power and cooling, redundancy and high availability, because of new blade servers and virtual machines technologies." -- Adam Judd, vice president for Asia-Pacific, Juniper Networks
	"I think the industry understands the need for seamless interoperability, but it is limited by existing proprietary infrastructure." -- Michael Crossey, vice president of marketing, Aepona