He's still wrong on most of them, whether you strongly disagree or not.<p>1. This one is so mushy, it's wrong just because of it. Substituting your favourite representation format (JSON instead of XML) doesn't make it any better or really anything to do with databases.<p>2. It's happening if you think EC2, Github and Heroku are somehow comparable. Also which one of these is making 'a lot of money' as predicted?<p>3. Your response doesn't actually address the prediction. Also, Clojure, Erlang, blah blah.<p>4. Just hasn't happened.<p>5. See above.<p>6. And Twitter and 'a new internet community hangout will appear' in 5 years is the most solid bet you can make on the internet.<p>7. It happened to be 5 years out or under. Oh well.<p>8. Nobody, statistically, pays Google for anything. Other than adwords.<p>9. Straight out wrong.<p>I think that easily qualifies for 'wrong on most of them'.