With all the bad news around about recession and how it has brought down so many firms, led to cost cutting in many companies, etc I was wondering if there can be anything good to hear about in these times ?Though I am not a economist, I can be optimistic about the post recession period..
I have come across a lot of firms aound who have started cost cutting pro actively. Suddenly everyone has started to think about luxury and necessity.Flight tickets for utmost improtant journeys have been downgraded. Journeys are avoided in the first place.For some, trains have replaced the flights.
All this makes me think how will recession shape IT ? Will it lead to the promotion of open source software. I have seen that open source is still to make its presence feltin many sectors mainly BFSI.People don't trust open source as there is no support and people seldom feel comfortable about the community in such mission critical applications.
Ironically these customers don't realise that most of the companies raise tiekts with the support group and keep following up at large. I have witnessed a few such instances from great database firms boasting about their support but not helping on time. The internal IT team has to then work hard to resolve these issues :)Now maybe open source will gain weightage during the choice of technology and many open source software companies can start providing paid support to kae the customer rely on these.
Open source costs would still remain way less than the spanky costs of licensed software.
Similar thoughts anyone ?
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