Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet expresses his views regarding a message from Gartner analyst Carl Claunch that says IT types should fear–yes fear–multicore technology.

“Why will multicore be an issue? For starters multicore technology can be a budget buster. Among Claunch’s multicore points at Gartner’s Symposium ITxpo:

* You’ll need new coding skills in house;
* You’ll need new development tools;
* There are multiple core designs that will affect your software;
* Your existing software licensing deals become more complicated;
* And the impact on applications varies immensely.

All those wild cards and it’s not even clear whether your old programs–and you know you have dozens of legacy apps lying around–won’t run faster.”

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