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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. The irony... by haxor.dk · · Score: 1, Troll

    Reading this article, I'm greeted with a huge ad for... Microsoft.

    Which pretty well leads to the point I was going to make - Microsoft dominated the softawre industry.

    And so does their eternal gobbling up/elimination of companies that actually have innovative products - or product that people actually LIKE.

    * Bungie, is the first company that springs to mind.
    Netscape died at the hands of IE.
    * Apple and the Mac OS has a knife on the throat thanks to Windows.
    * BeOS - MS is said to have a finger in the play of Be's funeral tune.
    * AMD has had numerous plroblems with Windows in teh past.
    * DRDOS and OS/2 was blatantly sabotaged by Windows software.
    * QuickTime was sabotaged since Win95b and onwards.
    * Linux is under judicial threat in teh USm thanks to Microsoft.

    And so on.

    Who would want to develop innovative commercial products when you're at risk being run over by a steam locomotive, if you get too successful?