Closing Open-Source

When I saw the news of Oracle’s takeover of Sun after IBM exit, the first thought was where is Open-Source headed. First it was a take-over of MySQL by Sun which worried many hearts that if MySQL would remain free. Now this news of Suns acquisition is a major concern for open-source community. The ever increasing materialization in professional world with much respected open-source companies available for a price is a jolt for community itself. Free software is more popular than propriety software especially in students, entrepreneurs and small organizations and startups. Although personally I see Oracle as more open-source friendly than some of other giants but this surely gonna hit free software in some way or other. On the other side it might be possible that all my fears come out rubbish and this acquisition comes out as a boon for MySQL, Java and hordes of other open-source technologies with support available from expertise of Oracle.

10 Skills

While surfing through various posts, I stumbled upon this interesting piece of article. Go through the main article to have the authors view on what should be focus in terms of industry skill-sets for developers.


Skills to have as your next 5 year plan. Summary of a post at TechRepublic:

1. One of the “Big Three” (.NET, Java, PHP)


2. Rich Internet Applications (Flash, Silverlight, JavaFX)Web development (JavaScript, CSS, HTML)


3. Web Development


4. Web services


5. Soft skills


6. One dyanamic and or functional programming language


7. Agile methodologies


8. Domain Knowledge


9. Development hygiene - Bug Tracking, SCM …


10. Mobile development

Read the post in detail here.


Also if you are maverick at a particular skill and believe this going to stay...so please go ahead and post a comment on the actual blog to alter the skills list.