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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. Read the article by imgumbydamnit · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In fact, it alludes the increasing pervasiveness of open source in businesses as causing developer shortages, and the increasing role of the big players in open source projects. These are signs of the success of the open source model, folks.

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  2. Got served a WebSphere ad with this story by Graftweed · · Score: 2, Interesting

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