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ticho writes:
"About 77% of hiring managers say finding Linux talent is a priority this year, up from 70% last year, and there's 'explosive demand' around the world for people with Linux skills, according to a recent report. A survey found hiring managers at tech-powered companies are focusing more attention on Linux talent, with the result that those who can work with the open source operating system will earn stronger-than-average salary increases.
Other findings include:
More than nine in 10 hiring managers plan to hire a Linux professional in the next six months;
Hiring managers are increasing the number of Linux professionals they are searching for. Forty six percent of hiring managers are beefing up their plans for recruiting Linux talent over the next six months, a three-point increase over last year.
Knowing Linux advances careers. Eighty-six percent of Linux professionals report that knowing Linux has given them more career opportunities, and 64 per cent say they chose to work with Linux because of its pervasiveness.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday March 10 2014, @12:05AM
Don't get too excited: Microsoft is still very strong in many sectors. For instance, in higher-powered embedded applications, MS is dominant. ATMs are a good example of this: they all run on Windows (I'm surprised they haven't gotten hacked at Target levels by now). Or high-end ($100K+) test equipment like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers: they all run on Windows too. (Actually, back in the 90s, Agilent fooled around with HP-UX for some of their test equipment, which was cool because it was accessible with both NFS and Samba IIRC, and could be controlled remotely with X, but that's long gone now.) A lot of handheld special-purpose stuff runs on WinCE, and has for years.
For most businesses and shops, this is a no-brainer. Do you want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in licensing fees to operate infrastructure, and even more employing your own expensive development teams certified for said infrastructure?
For most businesses and shops, the answer is "yes". It's gotten better since the early 00s, but most businesses still prefer to be chained to MS.
Most will not opt for that anymore.
Are we talking embedded products (which is what this sub-thread was about), or desktop PCs? For the latter, you're completely wrong.
Only fairly large companies these days have the use cases that justify a MSSQL/Oracle DB server, or an expensive MS server farm and domains.
No, there's little reason they couldn't change over to FOSS products for the most part if they really wanted to, however they don't, because of inertia and familiarity with MS products.
The old guard has to compete with FOSS, and quite frankly, it can't. It just can't.
Doesn't matter; businesses are still perfectly happy to shovel all their money over to MS. The only places I've seen FOSS used in any significant amount is actually a few large companies like Lowe's where they want something really reliable that's totally customized to their usage. Go to your local Lowe's and go to the counter where you order windows and doors, and check out their computer's UI.
Add to that just how much of app development for smart phones and tablets is done on open source platforms that cost nothing.
What dream world are you living in? Most app development for phones and tablets is done on OS X, since most apps are for iOS, and last I checked, you can't do it on Linux. Devs doing both Android and iOS probably use OS X, since you can certainly do both on that platform. Devs doing WinPhone development have to use Windows.