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Software Development Predictions For 2009
snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister lays out his development predictions for 2009. These include further struggles from Microsoft in retooling its image, a more open source mindset for Java, twilight for Sun, the Web as platform of choice, and a dearth of innovation due to dwindling economic prospects. 'When customers aren't buying, tool vendors don't innovate — so don't expect many groundbreaking new technologies to debut this year,' McAllister writes, adding that smart companies will realize that 'process automation is one of the best ways to reduce costs in any business,' making 2009 the ideal time to 'revisit old software schemes that got shelved back when staffing budgets were flush.'"
is very difficult, especially of the future.
These include further struggles from Microsoft in retooling its image, a more open source mindset for Java, twilight for Sun, the Web as platform of choice, [...]
Wow, bold predictions indeed! Here's one of my own: there'll be trouble in the middle east.
Do you think it might come true?
2009 will be the year of Linux, enveloped in another decade of Microsoft.
"Violence is the last refuge of the competent, and, generally, the first refuge of the incompetent" - Thing_1
(12) Lispers will remain quietly smug. Except Paul Graham, who will be vocally smug. .net is upgraded to another version. Nobody had figured out what the previous version did. /.ers, nobody in the real world cares.
(13) Pythoneers will remain vocally smug, except Guido who is busy doing real work.
(14) Open source software development remain 5 years ahead of Microsofts, except for the GUI, which lags by a decade.
(15) Someone will write a new distributed version control system.
(16) New web frameworks are written in Python (x3), Ruby (x2) and Cobol. Database work is still difficult.
(17)
(18) Scrum get's a new acronym, to the disgust of its advocates.
(19) Outside of a select few programmers and
Yeah, but what isn't?