[dba-Tech] The big change

Hi Arthur:

The Windows market is unlikely to ever disappear. The only way it will ever disappear is in Microsoft's hands. There is no magic bullet, or special OS that will ever again have the complete dominance that Microsoft had. 

In the old days, as a young developer, you just had to become competent in Windows and your career was set. That is not the case today. Now young developers has to spread their talent around, Windows maybe, iOS maybe, Linux maybe and web development. So a developer who wants a future has to do a combination specialize and diversify.

I personally think, at least on this continent and probably Europe the future is, number one in the Web/web serves/Linux (it is probably 40 percent of the market share?), two would be windows (25 percent?) and the rest would be iOS and others.

As for new markets they have not been going to Windows, for example China, India,...

Dell has announced that they are opening a thousand stores in China, all selling Dells with Ubuntu Linux.

http://blog.canonical.com/2013/09/05/canonical-dell-launching-ubuntu-in-china-in-1000-stores/

That said, Windows (hopefully) is going nowhere soon and all us old guys be long gone before that happens...and anyway there is more than enough legacy work to keep us all gainfully employed.

Jim

      

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 3:54:36 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The big change

Jim,

I agree with most of what you said and some of what your citations said.
Clearly the marketplace has shifted, and we dinosaurs who put on our
blinkers and see the rapidly-dimishing market for desktop apps
(irrespective of programming language)... I for one Refuse to die in the
asphalt tar-sands. Thank God for Alpha Anywhere to lead me out of these
tar-sands. Were it not for that company, I would fold my tent and steal
away like Arabs in the night (that's not a slur but a vaguely recollected
poem or story from Rudyard Kipling, or possibly someone else; memory fails,
in direct proportion to age).

A.

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