(2003-06-23) Eric Kidd Software Industry Futures

Eric Kidd on visions of the future Software Industry: Microsoft, Open Source... and where the small ISV may try to fit... (It's interesting that he treats Joel Spolsky's operation like a 30-person company, when it's actually a 2-person operation, so far.) And each of these little companies is proudly independent, and each is too focused on destroying other little companies to see the giants all around them. Individually, the little companies will be trampled upon, unseen. They have no philosophers to speak for them, and nobody to defend their role. The small companies offer me no visions.

Tim OReilly's Re Boot talk on the Open Source Paradigm Shift. The money doesn't come from selling software. People who don't know this have a paradigm failure.