Timely Data Capture & Information Retrieval has been and continues to be the ongoing Organizational / IT challenge. The focus is on the enterprise and specific departmental or individual's needs are low on the list.
Record length has grown from 80 column cards in long trays to a virtual infinity of immediate information. Voice, Images, Video supplementing text.
When your data resides on the web and your device can link to the web for entry & display in real time there are simple solutions for complex problems.
The next generation of cell phones will have Java embedded in them. They will compete with iphone and go further as they replace many PDA functions and take on scanning functions such as barcode and RF,
The open-source community sees a phone with java as a little computer that can stand-alone then sync with the web and the desktop.
Sun - Netbeans & JavaFM & IBM - Eclipse with re-engineering and code generations creating a class of open-source license free programs that will run the same on the web, the desktop or the phone. The "Bundle" is back.
Updated thinking required since Oracle will now get Sun.