Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Wed Jan 16 06:43:58 CST 2013
Hi Jim -- <<< No, hardly "kicking the can down the road" but we now have to wait to see is all the predictions by the "reported" experts and our observations comes true. >>> Yes. <<< What I find most exciting is it appears that no longer is there an immediate threat that one of two companies to completely rule the direction the computer industry. >>> Yes, I hope too. <<< Unfortunately, Microsoft's 95 percent control of the industry crushed out much of new technology growth. >>> I have my own "long list of claims" to MS but I'd not say that MS that much influenced "stagnation/crushing of technology growth" in 90-ies and 00-ies - that "slow growth" was a usual "illness of growth" for the whole IT industry IMO. <<< It is a good time to be a programmer. >>> I hope too. Although the custom apps development competition is so fierce nowadays that I often doubt that programming profession is a good choice for making a decent living: if being alone - it would work, but keeping a (large) family's household - that could be a (very) heavy duty... Thank you. -- Shamil Вторник, 15 января 2013, 19:17 -08:00 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: >No, hardly "kicking the can down the road" but we now have to wait to see is >all the predictions by the "reported" experts and our observations comes >true. > >What I find most exciting is it appears that no longer is there an immediate >threat that one of two companies to completely rule the direction the >computer industry. These breakups give opportunities for the creative >geniuses out there. There are more start-ups that ever before and more >successful one. More companies are popping up everywhere. There is more and >different technologies being tested and used. > >Unfortunately, Microsoft's 95 percent control of the industry crushed out >much of new technology growth. Now a days a tech can be anything they want >to be whether it is Windows, Apple, Linux, desktop, tablet, Smartphone, >cloud, SQL, NoSQL or any mixture of a thousand different flavours. > >The market, even though it has matured a lot, looks not unlike the industry >in the eighties, full of energy and creativity. It is a good time to be a >programmer. > >Jim <<< skipped >>> >