:TechNewsWorld: Innovation Loses If Open Source Wins
TechNewsWorld: Innovation Loses If Open Source Wins Nov 19, 2003, 01 :00 UTC (58 Talkback[s]) (11978 reads) (Other stories by Rob Enderle)
"...one of the things I have to do on a regular basis is what-if analysis. In this kind of analysis, you make the assumption that something that is possible actually happens, you describe the future world that results, and then you develop a strategy to deal with that outcome. It's actually quite a bit of fun.
"Recently, I had the chance to do this with the assumption that Microsoft had failed and the world had embraced open-source software.
"In that world, which I profiled around the 2010 timeframe, revenues and jobs had long ago left North America and much of Western Europe. Software jobs and positions largely had moved to the Third World because of lower labor rates in emerging nations..."