title: Lessons Learned from PICNIC.
abstract: This chapter reviews the PICNIC experience from conception to its realisation and draws conclusions on several fronts. It puts PICNIC within the current framework of needs and requirements, summarises shortly its main contributions, and discusses its main contributions. Special emphasis is given to understanding the needs and requirements resulting from a fragmented ICT market and the implications and possibilities that PICNIC has created for a consolidation of the market.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, PO Box 1385, GR-71110, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
authors.forename: Manolis
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsiknakis
authors.forename: Niilo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Saranummi