Where is the software industry moving to?

what lies in the future of software developers.who will be the winnner in the coming years.does software industry belong to .net developersor java developers or some else skill knowing persons.which field is likely to improve in next years.I mean who is going to be the winner in next years when it comes to software development.

The big thing will be web-based apps and thin clients, rather than local applications running on powerful PCs.

Everything will come in handy. I think the next key aspects will be knowing about virtual worlds and 3d internet.

and the winning numbers to the powerball lottery is.....
Nah, you don't need to know. I can see that far into the future..you are gonna be hit by a car. End, finito.

Think that SOA looks like a good solution for most medium/large businesses. Allows them to pull together the content from different systems without limiting themselves to having to commit themselves like they have done in the past.
It's a bit like plug and play - take the information you need from each system, if the system changes then with a few tweaks it can fetch the data from somewhere else. This used to be a major systems type change - now it can be done via a GUI by a business analyst.
Nige