Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Jan 16 10:54:27 CST 2013
On your last comment I agree and would remark that the computer market, particularly the desktop market is filled with too many people. The market is still flooded in that area as every boy and girl from the late nineties thought they were going on to make their fame and fortune in computers. Desktop centric anything is not where the new work is and neither is building applications for the desktop and that is the same for any OS. The growing demand in the computer industry is for creating business to business applications and supporting the server based market associated with their ecommerce web sites. This area is still much larger than the number of people needed to fill it. In summary, the web and related server market is where the money is and the desktop market is now completely saturated. Unfortunately, if a developer/tech is looking for a career in the current server/web/big data management market, Microsoft definitely has a very small presents there ...around five to ten percent and I am being charitable. If you want to make the really big money then you have to create you own applications that fills a gap in the market. I always check out sites like KickStarter (and there is many more similar site), to see what projects are hot: http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/open%20software?ref=sidebar and check out Github: https://github.com/ where all the best developer go. Many work on OSS projects to build up their reputations, which gives them an opportunity to pick lucrative side contracts or to find other like minded techs to assist them with a new project. Big companies also scan these sites for their next big team players and project managers. It is worthy to note, that single free-lancers, do not do as well as those who have and can demonstrate project experience of working with others. I can/could still do well in the "mom and pop" market or just as a "hired gun" but that is because I have been in the business for about a hundred years and know everyone. ;-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:44 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] PCs are here to stay 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 >>> > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com