Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 06, 2004 03:47 PM
On Open Source: Unemployment resulting from open source software is not totally unlikely. When HP, SUN, IBM, ORACLE truly embrace open source there main lines of products, like Websphere (huge cashcow), Lotus Notes, DB2 or Oracle SQL (= Oracle), HP-UX, Solaris (selling with the special hardware!) will be wiped out. Open Source alternatives like JBoss or MySQL or Linux are at hand and are just as good. This will cost tens of thousands of programmers jobs in the west, which will partly be reinstated in the east (china, india) under semi goverment control. My gues is that college courses for software programming in the west will shed 50%-70% of their students and professors in the next 5-10 years.
On China: The remarks on china are plain stupid. Everyone who has done business with china knows what china wants: 1) Control over products, designs etc 2) Reached by copying foreign products legally unprotected. Sun won nothing in china - they sold out their javadesktop system, once, never to get it back.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 06, 2004 03:47 PMUnemployment resulting from open source software is not totally unlikely. When HP, SUN, IBM, ORACLE truly embrace open source there main lines of products, like Websphere (huge cashcow), Lotus Notes, DB2 or Oracle SQL (= Oracle), HP-UX, Solaris (selling with the special hardware!) will be wiped out. Open Source alternatives like JBoss or MySQL or Linux are at hand and are just as good. This will cost tens of thousands of programmers jobs in the west, which will partly be reinstated in the east (china, india) under semi goverment control. My gues is that college courses for software programming in the west will shed 50%-70% of their students and professors in the next 5-10 years.
On China:
The remarks on china are plain stupid. Everyone who has done business with china knows what china wants: 1) Control over products, designs etc 2) Reached by copying foreign products legally unprotected. Sun won nothing in china - they sold out their javadesktop system, once, never to get it back.
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