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Technology: Need a Job? Know Anything about Open Source?
The on-going slowdown in the economy may be a driver behind rapid growth in the adoption of Open Source software in the enterprise. An O’Reilly report shows that 5 to 15 percent of all open IT jobs mention open source software as a requirement.
And momentum is picking up for the testing and trial of Open Source projects. The number of projects hosted on SourceForge in 2000 was
12,500 and at the end of 2007, the number jumped to 200,000, which works out to nearly 55 percent annual growth. In 2003 there were only 200,000 annual downloads. At the end of 2007 the number of downloads exceeded 800 million. O’Reilly expects the number of annual downloads to break 1 billion in 2009. The report goes on to say that because much of the content on Sourceforge is hosted on mirror sites which don’t get included in the download counts, that the number can actually be much higher.
Until now many of the jobs related to Open Source were somehow related to Linux — demand for Linux skills grew 18 percent last year. But that’s changing now. Applications are now achieving much quicker growth than the Linux OS. Alfresco, Django and Drupal are leading the pack in Open Source apps that are seeing fast growth. Other areas seeing high growth are LAMP, Ruby on Rails, VMware, and MySQL.
