in reply to 2011: The dark year of IT?

It doesn't look worse than any other year to me, really. I personally found the year that Oracle bought Sun (2009? 2010?) worse.

Influential people die all the time; in IT less so far because it's such a young field, but that will change and the number of important will rise rather than fall.

On the plus side, we've seen great releases of Perl 5 and Perl 6 implementations, of postgresql and countless other great software projects, successful IPOs of IT companies etc.

"Always look on the bright side of life!"

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Re^2: 2011: The dark year of IT?
by cavac (Prior) on Dec 12, 2011 at 17:42 UTC

    On the plus side, we've seen great releases of Perl 5 and Perl 6 implementations, of postgresql and countless other great software projects, successful IPOs of IT companies etc.

    That is certainly true. Seen from that viewpoint, it certainly looks much better.

    "Always look on the bright side of life!"

    Don't say that! Now i can't get that song out of my ear! Do'h! ;-)

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