Will you pay for open source in 2009?

It seems that more open source applications will cost in 2009, will you pay? Infoworld has an interesting response to CNET's open source ideas that definitely deserves a good read. Most people think that open source means free, but CNET disagrees.

What are your thoughts?

Free versus paid offers to completely different business models and it will be interesting to see how each hold up in the upcoming year.

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Top Tech Resolutions of 2009

Moving forward in 2009, its time to work better with less. Infoworld.com stripped 2009 down to the bare essential goals that all companies should aim for this year. Among them, get out of old IT dogma and archaic thinking. This business climate will leave old thinkers in the dust. Don't settle for less just because you have to work with less. Think future think progress. Definitely read their resolutions and add a few of your own.

Hottest IT Jobs

In a recent research study done by Forrester, discussed here at InfoWorld, they released what their analysts believe are the hottest jobs in IT. The hottest of all jobs available were information/data architects and information security experts. Making the extremely hot list was data/content oriented business analyst, business architect, enterprise architect, and vendor management experts.

Of all the jobs on the list, Forrester found that these attributes were most important characteristics in all the jobs listed:

* Local knowledge of the business industry or region.
* Cross-discipline knowledge; understanding both management practices and customer groups.
* Those willing to take on high-risk roles that, if successful, will have a major impact on the business.
* Limited external supply; that is, while an outsourcer may be willing to supply 500 coders, the benefits of finding you a half-dozen enterprise architects is not worth their while.
* Consistency with technology, vendor, or industry direction, meaning rapid changes in technology; an example is how mobile put a higher demand on real experts who have domain-specific knowledge.