And Linux will gain significant market share by 2006!!!
I have heard this one before. 12 years off, but still pretty far fetched. And how close to the source do you want to consider this. If you count people who install Mozilla on the side, you may be closer to 2015.
40 percent of IT jobs will be in open source, study
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By 2020, the cloud will have taken over, and open source will rule in the cloud - with the result that 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, according to a report.
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By 2020, the cloud will have taken over, and open source will rule in the cloud - with the result that 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, according to a roadmap launched yesterday.
The FLOSS 2020 roadmap, announced at the Open World Forum in Paris, gives a set of predictions of where IT will be in 2020. It then gives recommendations - admitting in the process that the recommendations are "formulated in the hope that these predictions will come true" - i.e. the open source nirvana only happens if we work for it now.
There are 78 pages of the report, and it goes into some very sensible public policy recommendations (ban software patents etc) along with ideas for education and corporate governance.
It also makes the interesting point that in moving to the mainstream via cloud computing, the actual code that is the basis of open source will be further hidden from the user. This is an inevitable part of the move to the mainstream, but some will see it as a "dilution" of open source.
This will be worth looking at in more depth.
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nucrash3rd Dec 2008 -
AndyCee3rd Dec 2008 -
Depends if the financial markets are given the power
to continue to be Stalinist, and if people are prepared (or just too ignorant and lazy) to put up with the nonsense going on.
It could go the other way, as we've seen the banks being kicked back into their corner now that they've screwed the whole world economy in the name of their own short term self interested greed.
fr0thy23rd Dec 2008 -
Self serving rubbish.....
I also find it ironic that the FOSS community claims as a strength "No vendor lockin", yet FOSS software is the backbone of many Web Applications that create some of the worst vendor lockin ever! Better hope you don't have a billing dispute with Sales Force.com or even think of switching providers.
JoeMama_z3rd Dec 2008 -
right...
freetards unite. I predict in 30 years from now, my hover car will have an ipod hook up.
mydasx3rd Dec 2008 -
RE: 40 percent of IT jobs will be in open source, study
Seeing the development of Open Source, I would say thats a lower percentile result.
Btw, Open Source will rule but not conquer.
arjuna_mca5th Dec 2008 -
RE: 40 percent of IT jobs will be in open source, study
Awesome let's empower people with FOSS and then millions of people will move into the IT arena and build for society.
fpayan@...5th Dec 2008 -
lol
yes, lets give up our jobs and all become marxists... We will give each other cars, software, and missles. This is such a fresh new idea. It'll never fail.mydasx15th Dec 2008
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