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More MS, Less Talent In Open Source's Future

Posted by kdawson on from the tell-me-again-why-we're-doing-this-for-nothing dept.

alphadogg writes "The open source industry in 2008 will be marked by more news out of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and other big IT vendors, less start-up funding, more M&A activity, and an increasingly serious talent shortage, according to Raven Zachary, open source research director for The 451 Group. One example of the talent shortage will be people with expertise in the Tomcat open source Java servlet middleware from the Apache Foundation. 'There are 25 or so core contributors to that project,' Zachary said. 'Over the past four or five years that number has stayed virtually [unchanged]... but the growth of Tomcat has been astronomical.'"

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  1. Re:Talent shortage? by wwmedia · · Score: 4, Funny

    u mean not all programmers like to give away their work and answer support questions for free with their open source software?

  2. From TFA by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Microsoft is still trying to work out its strategy," he said. "Ultimately, I think we'll see them embrace open source much more." Now I'm worried.
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  3. Re:Talent shortage? by RHSC · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer to get paid by the semicolon...just so long as I don't have to code in VB

  4. Re:MS... by teknopurge · · Score: 3, Funny

    Chairs.

    Everyone knows that.

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  5. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Q. How many BASIC programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

    A. 10 to GOTO the hardware store, 20 to screw in the bulb.

  6. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Since we're going to be working with Microsoft according to the article, the number of programmers required to change a light bulb is ZERO.

    Steve Ballmer will declare Darkness(tm) to be the new standard, and throw a chair at anyone who complains.

  7. Network World FTL! by Jonboy+X · · Score: 2, Funny

    He also said he anticipates Microsoft becoming increasingly busy in open source, since it "has a vested interest in making sure open source works well on Windows." However, he noted it could be well into the next decade before we see something as dramatic as an actual Linux distribution from Microsoft.


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