July 25, 2006

Hackers & the Open Source Model

A recent article at PC Advisor complains that Hackers learn from open source. That they do, but one could equally argue that business does too. For that matter, it seems the ironic gist of the article is that business is no match for the distributed, open nature of this model of software development. C'mon guys, lets get off our collective laurels and try harder!!

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May 06, 2006

Tech Publishing - Market

If you buy computer and technology books at all, you may have noticed that sometimes one can spot trends just by paying attention to what books are arriving on the shelves.


O'Reilly Radar has a really excellent three part series State of the Computer Book Market. Although I agree that one can spot trends, and learn something about where technologies are heading, you may be at a slight risk of paying attention to trends as in trendiness, rather than trends, as in the real underlying inertia of the industry. Keep that in mind, and read on. Part II and Part III.

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May 02, 2006

Certification Revisited

We talked about certification in Open Insights Newsletter 09 back in July 2005.


It seems the issue is perculating to the surface again, and employers are slowly becoming wise to the fact that often those seeking certification are those that don't have skills and real-world know-how in the first place.

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March 06, 2006

Fear Of A Jobless Planet

Despite fears of outsourcing for many years since the tech bubble crashed, it seems the economists are right again. The economy is clearly bouncing back for the tech sector.

Whenever I'm curious about the job market, I search craigslist and compare the figures in the Bay Area, and NYC for search keywords like Oracle, Open Source, Linux and Java.

Bay Area
Oracle:682
Open Source: 243
Linux: 898
Java: 1031

New York City
Oracle: 185
Open Source: 81
Linux: 257
Java: 373

Seems like a pretty healthy market to me!

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