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The decade of development
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| 2. The rise of open source software (OSS)
|
| Open Source Software reached critical mass
| in the decade of the noughties. The open
| source model caught on like wild fire among
| developers and quickly became adopted by
| entrepreneurs looking to build companies by
| providing services for these OSS
| technologies. And it worked. Marc Fleury
| founded JBoss around the JBoss application
| server and later sold the company to Red
| Hat for more than $350 million. Rod Johnson
| founded SpringSource around the open source
| Spring Framework, and last year sold it to
| VMware for $420 million. VCs saw an
| opportunity and began to get behind the
| best and the brightest. And organisations
| such as the Apache Software Foundation
| (ASF) and the Eclipse Foundation sprang up
| to, among other things, foster community
| involvement in various open source
| projects. Although the ASF was founded in
| 1999, it saw some of its best days in the
| noughties.
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http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29419:the-decade-of-development&catid=86:computing&Itemid=64
Code Is the New Resume: How to Get an IT Job in Today's Economy
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| Dmitri, on the other hand, is a Linux
| developer. His power management code has
| been mainlined into the Linux kernel
| steadily over the last few years. He's even
| been invited to Kernel Summit. Behemoth
| Consumer Products (BCP) employed Dmitri for
| the last three years, for work on their
| version of Linux that they embed in their
| devices. They, too, hit a rough patch, and
| Dmitri is out looking for work.
|
| Luckily for Dmitri, his colleagues in the
| Linux community all work for companies who
| use embedded Linux. It's easier for him to
| network, and employers donât have to count
| on Dmitri for a description of his work. It
| lives in the open, in the kernel tree, for
| anyone to inspect. (He can even make it in
| the "Who Writes Linux" report that the
| Linux Foundation publishes every year.)
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Code-is-the-New-Resume-How-to-Get-an-IT-Job-in-Todays-Economy/
Recent:
Linux: World domination (and jobs) in sight
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| It's looking more and more likely. Linux is
| everywhere, creating jobs, lowering IT costs,
| and serving as poster child for the open-
| source business and development movements.
|
| This momentum isn't lost on Microsoft, which
| has revived its anti-Linux charm offensive.
| Speaking at CES, Robbie Bach, president of
| Microsoft's entertainment and services
| division, overlooked Windows Mobile's dismal
| market performance to sneer at mobile Linux,
| claiming that Linux in its current form is not
| "really sustainable."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10436029-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Open Source Could Create Better Election Software, Jobs
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| You may know the Federal Election Commission if you've ever been involved
| with national politics. The FEC is the regulatory agency that administers and
| enforces federal campaign finance laws; it's sort of like the IRS but
| specifically for congressional and senate campaigns. Any serious candidate
| for public office on a national level has to file campaign finance reports
| routinely or face administrative penalties. Along with campaigns themselves,
| political committees called PACs are also regulated by the FEC and must file
| regularly.
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http://linux.com/news/software/developer/27679-open-source-could-create-better-election-software-jobs
Save a job with open source
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| My own home county of Buncombe in western North Carolina will be letting
| about 80 teachers go with the current budget. Like many other government
| agencies, and businesses, they simply don't have enough money coming in.
|
| But, Wollenberg asks, why don't we save money for teachers, by switching to
| FOSS (free and open-source software), he's not talking about major changes,
| like switching from Linux to Windows on desktops. He's talking about taking
| small steps. As Wollenberg points out, it's not so much that the school
| systems have problems with open source; it's that they're reluctant to adopt
| anything new.
|
| [...]
|
| For instance, Microsoft has finally given up on Microsoft Money. Intuit, of
| course, wants all those customers to go over to Quicken. But, should they?
| Shouldn't they at least consider GnuCash?
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/save_a_job_with_open_source
Is Open Source a Good Career Bet for Developers?
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| With any article whose premise is ensuring the safety of your programming
| career, it's tempting to try to hook your attention with fear, uncertainty,
| and doubt about the state of the economy. I could point at all those layoff
| statistics. Or I could frighten you by bringing up the spectre of your job
| going overseas.
|
| But that's not the point, really. Our career choices affect us personally no
| matter what the economy looks like. We all have to find a balance between
| what we love to do and work that someone else will pay for. (This is why I
| cannot brag about my remarkable career from consuming chocolate; I've never
| found someone to pay the bills for it, alas.) To make the best career
| choices, you must become aware of where the market is going. And then you
| have to fine-tune your expertise so that your skills stay in-demand... or so
| that you can develop new skills that shortly will be in demand.
|
| [...]
|
| And the good news for open source developers is that
| comparing "programmer," "programmer open source," "programmer .net"
| and "programmer java" yields a happy chart for open source developers. The
| overall programmer salary averages $73,000 per year, and the Java and .NET
| developers earn just over that ($76,000). (Or, to be more rigorous, more jobs
| are advertised with those salaries.) In contrast, open source developers are
| offered $83,000--a nice raise.
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http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/article/is-open-source-a-good-career-bet-developers
Linux Courses Increase Job Options for Techs
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| For software programmers and developers worried about layoffs and job
| security in these tough economic times, the answer may be as clear as the
| screen on your cell phone. That's because manufacturers of small consumer
| equipment like cell phones and PDAs need programmers trained in embedded
| Linux to hand-tune the product's software code.
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http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/01-09-2009/0004952263&EDATE=
Where the Tech Jobs Are, Part 1
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| "In a recession, headcount looks like a cost center, but open source can turn
| employees into profit centers -- or, at worst, into less costly cost
| centers," he said.
|
| "For example, let's say an enterprise needs [an enterprise content
| management] system, perhaps for outsourcing documentation or to build a new
| catalog system -- or perhaps for a workflow system around approval of
| executive documents. Traditional IT would invite vendors to do a dog-and-pony
| show," Asay explained, "ultimately culminating in a purchase of software
| licenses and services to make the licenses useful to the enterprise." The IT
| staffer is then mostly responsible for coordinating others' efforts, and the
| associated expenses.
|
| An open source savvy IT person, by contrast, would download an open source
| ECM solution and tweak it to save the company license and services
| fees -- "and the risk that the software wouldn't work as advertised," said
| Asay.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/commentary/65705.html
Training program to create 100,000 jobs
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| LUPA (Leadership of Open Source University Promotion Alliance), a Chinese
| open source software community, plans to initiate a training project for the
| country's computer and software graduates as low-cost open source software
| development is gaining popularity in the current financial crisis.
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-12/19/content_7324052.htm
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