Look for users sneaking DSL lines into offices much as they snuck in Apple IIs in the early 80s. From there it's a simple matter of setting up departmental LANs that are fully part of the Internet, unencumbered by system managers and firewalls. I'm not going to make them do it, so don't get mad at me, they'll do it all on their own. It's such a replay of the early 80s. The B2B and infrastructure companies and Microsoft are trying to work within the system, in the meantime networking technology is becoming easy as the Apple II made computing easy.
Bigole wheel keep on turnin.
BTW, our policy at UserLand is to respect firewalls and not try to in any way circumvent them. This has been our policy since the issue first came up when we started doing XML-RPC in 1998. On Tuesday I met a guy who works for David Stutz at Microsoft, I don't remember his name, but he's British and reads Scripting News. He said he thought I was a little guy and was surprised to see that I'm not. At 6-2 and 230 pounds I'm definitely on the bigger side.