Raphael and i have got the same gut feeling: it’s time to read up on Erlang, a functional language with a facilities for concurrency.
I’ve been reading a blog by Joe Armstrong on the subject for a little while.
Of course, like with all gut feelings, this one could be completely off – maybe something revolutionary is brooding in the deepest darkest software underground that i don’t know about (probably even), but this one seems interesting anyway.