It appears that the increasing expansion in computer technologies is mirrored by a convergence of infrastructure, assimilation of GIS into geo-spatial applications and integration of multiple features into common simplified field interface. Single point applications, although easily implemented, must soon consolidate to true information systems supporting field users. The economics of reusable software products will collide with the custom vertical application requirements to produce innovative flexible and configurable products. Lastly, the revolutionary nature of impending changes in network communications, hand-held computing power and universal location services has the potential to obsolete many recently introduced mobile systems.

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