Will Your Next Job Be Linux-Related?, Mar 02, 2009

Here's some good news for a change: Linux-related jobs are on the rise.

As the global economy continues its slide, U.S. politicians have staked out their positions at the stimulus trough, stopping only long enough to blame the other party for the world's problems. Given such serious divisions, how can we focus our government on policies, not politics? Mozilla, the creator of the Firefox browser, offers some clues.

Even as the global server market contracts by 14 percent, and Linux server sales decline 7 percent (Windows dropped 17.8 percent), according to IDC, Red Hat's Linux server business is swimming against the current.

Microsoft’s lawsuit against TomTom is aimed at Linux but it won’t deter the open source operating system’s success in the mobile device market, said Open Invention Network’s CEO.

The number of open source projects targeting smartphones and other mobile devices continues a dramatic rise, growing at a 55% compound annual rate from 2005 through the end of last year.

Has Ubuntu development plateaued? Is the best that we can expect the from now on evolutionary changes rather as opposed to revolutionary ones?

Ubuntu has reached an incredible state of maturity and schools can quite happily use it without fear of obsolescence in 6 months.

People are excited about Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. And who wouldn’t be? With each incarnation, the Linux-based operating system steps further from the shadow of its geekiness.

One of the sure signs that open source is taking hold in computing is that it is spreading far beyond its heartland, the datacentre.

Microsoft's patent-infringement suit against TomTom is a private dispute and doesn't appear aimed at Linux or open-source software.

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