Well finally you can use all modern hardware's features in something else than DirectX.
You can always use the latest features in OpenGL through vendor extensions. No new OpenGL version is needed for that.
OpenGL 3.0 doesn´t seem to be well received:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/11/2135259&from=rssIf Intel´s Larrabee idea will work out then DirectX and OpenGL will become obsolete anyway. We will go back to software rendering.
