“Thanksgiving is upon us, and I’m already counting my blessings
despite a tough year for IT. Although 2002 has been a difficult
year, there are plenty of things to be thankful for in the world of
IT. As I reflect on the past year, I am grateful for several
things…“Open-source development continues to make my job easier by
providing solid solutions that work both technically and
financially. During the boom times, a common job benefit and
recruiting tool of the CTO was to sanction work on open-source
projects during company time. Now that the economy has tightened, I
don’t hear much about this kind of arrangement any more, yet the
quality of work in the open-source community continues to be
impressive because of the passion of developers committed to
improving technology despite a harsh macroeconomic
environment…”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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