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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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  2. Your college degree reminds me of a story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A while back doing some family research I found out some very sad news...it seems my grandfather's brother died at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp...it seems that one night he got very drunk and fell out of his guard tower. This news of Uncle Fritz has really devastated my family. Please let me know that you share my pain over the tragic death of my ancestor. Thank You kind slashdotters.

  3. All that's dead is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    All that's dead is you slashdoters' social lives...

  4. 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?