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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> SOA and OSS to replace it?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| You can't toss a computer scientist without hitting someone saying
>| that software is dead. Venture capitalists think it (some are even moving
>| on to energy and elsewhere), the market thinks it (multiples are at
>| historical lows), and would-be software engineers think it (applications
>| to CompSci programs remain in the basement).
> `----
>
> http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/05/30/rumors_of_softw.html
>
> Notice the complementary comments.
It's not dead, it's just that a lock-in based business model is dead.
Software has never been more alive than it is now, but because it's
entered the commodity marketplace, where margins are wafer-thin, the VCs
are not seeing easy money. Support and integration skills requirements
are going to grow like nobody's business, however, since every comp-sci,
engineering, maths graduate or whoever else is going to be able to call
on top-class code to build whatever they like. The skills are going to
be at the top-end of the stack, and in support.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
VMS, n.:
The world's foremost multi-user adventure game.
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