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[News] Free Software Business Shows Signs of Growth in Bad Economy

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Growth spotted in the IT jobs market

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| Based on its findings, the site said the future looks equally as bright for 
| Open Source developers, infrastructure analysts and business analysts, even 
| though their current supply of work has thinned since last year.  
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http://www.contractoruk.com/news/004479.html


Recent:

IBM: UNIX to Linux Migration Rate Growing

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| Inna Kuznetsova, Director, Linux Strategy, led the meeting attended by IT
| analysts and painted a telling picture of what IBM's Linux business has been
| in recent months: in short, strong and growing. To give an idea of this
| strength, Kuznetsova reported that in the past three years, over 1,800
| customers have migrated from competitive platforms to IBM, and nearly 50
| percent of those IBM wins included Linux.
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http://linux.com/news/featured-blogs/168-brian-proffitt/33283-ibm-unix-to-linux-migration-rate-growing


The Value of Linux Job Skills Rises 50%

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| Many pundits who have seen this data have postulated that the economy is
| actually the source for this rapid rise in valuation, as companies are
| flocking to open source software due to budget constraints. Anecdotally I
| have seen this as well, and our members tell us they are seeing it too.
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http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2009/08/value-linux-job-skills-rises-50
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