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Is The Software Industry Dead?

Posted by Hemos on from the it-lies-not-dead-but-dreaming dept.

A reader writes:" Ok. So I'm about to graduate and then I come across this story: Do Software Firms Have Bright Future? None other than Larry Ellison of Oracle thinks that the best is behind us and that software is a dead industry. What does the rest of slashdot think? Will that shiney new degree be worthless? " I think it's safe to say that it's not dead - but that the times it once had aren't going to return; e.g. tulip blubs sell well, but not like they used to.

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  1. blah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post *waits to get edited out*

  2. wooohoooo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!!!!!!!
    first post!!!!!!!
    woohoooo
    --cs

  3. YOU ARE INCORRECT, FOOL by VIGILANTROLL · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BSD IS DYING! I will create a tool for you - and here it is: ())====D Now use it, Monkey!

  4. Re:answer..... by mirko · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Though the above fr1st-ps0ter have been modded as offtopic, I can't help thinking his answer is an exhaustive summary to the submitter's question :
    Why would the software industry be dead ?
    Do you really think there's nothing else to be invented in software ?
    Well, maybe your father did this mistake once, before Apple democratized the very first consumer GUI.
    What could be invented, now ?
    Hmmm... Computers that don't think but foresee.
    3D GUI with appropriate eye-movements-driven control, p2p PDA that'll obsolete phone companies, unless they turn their phone network into a quicker-than-internet network...
    There could also be some huge evolution in term of ergonomy : just give your mother ms-word.
    How long will it be until she calls for help ?
    As long as people will be unconfortable with some tasks, there will be evolution, it's darwinian.
    So, definitely, the above answer is correct.

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  5. Re:Larry says...... by rabidcow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good idea or not, it isn't happening (and didn't happen years ago when he was pushing it). Ellison is not exactly a visionary.

  6. Re:IT Shakeout Go get your REAL job at Burger King by PingPongBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As a veteran of IT I was there when you had to have real skill to get involved. Also, being around during the boom I saw that attitude change and companies take on inexperienced employees because it was sooo hard to find employees in general. I worked on Bank of America's network security team and it was pretty much a training camp for unqualified employees. By the time they had some skills they realized that they could make more $ elsewhere so it was a never ending cycle

    Pretty ironic that someone working for a bank finds s/he can make more $$$ elsewhere.

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