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Firewire. One of the comments there lead to a white paper by the CEO of Weibetech.
Here : http://www.wiebetech.com/pressreleases/firewireevolution.pdf

His main points : Apple and Oxford (chipset makers) blew the Firewire 800 introduction & it performed below expectations.
SATA is the future for external storage, Firewire 800 is finished long term.
FW 1600 etc. will never happen.
Firewire 400 will be around for quite some time, in much the same way as USB1.1

The article Blue linked to was from the 1394 trade body, i suspect they may have a slight bias

BTW, I agree Firewire implementation is superior to USB for certain things. FW was designed for streaming from day 1, USB was never designed for this. USB2 will be made to work, I suspect it requires a lot more work though.

One more thing, Apple didn't help FWs reputation with the 1st generation G5s FW implementation. It was responsible for much grief in the Pro Audio community. The problems seem to have been sorted in the new dual cores - which is a good thing as there isn't a single audio interface using PCI-Express ATM, FW is the only way to go right now.