Analysing 2008 and ICT Events....

The year 2008 is coming to a climax and just like with every dynamic sector, the IT sector has had a share of the ups and downs this year. We most notably witnessed a near turn-around Microsoft. a new Microsoft Inc. sort-of, a company which is now public aware and sensitive. We saw the acceptance of apparent flaws like the most recent IE 8 bug saga culminating into the reveal of the buggy nature of the Official Commercial browser from Microsoft and the subsequent release of a patch/patches, an action seen as the most expedite action from that company in recent time. In this year also, Microsoft has technically accepted that though Vista is an innovative product, it does have drawbacks and hence has promised users a new OS from its stake come the first quota of 2009 (Windows 7). Windows-7 is hopefully going to be a faster OS with look and feel like Vista (my predictions). Microsoft has also technically owned up to the fact that Open Source is really gaining grounds in the IT market and therefore the company released its first Open Source framework(oxite) and this to us is an indication that what we believe as Open Source users that a GPL or GNU license does not mean an empty pocket necessarily for developers and companies is true. A whole lot has really happened to score Open source high especially with Giants closed source companies taken actions that indicates that the competition posed by Open source is telling on 'em. We have also seen symfony framework gaining more acceptance this year, more awareness and growing yearning for more health-care oriented solutions. We have seen Microsoft learning hard lessons like with the Yahoo bid game it lost, its desire to completely buy Facebook (though officially denies this) and its selfish desire to have a God-like presence in the IT world. I think the Solaris, Fedora, RH as unix flavors have really gained more users this year also due to the fact that Windows has continously proved to be an insecured and very vulnerable platform. In summary, I think if you are thinking of a career in IT, now is the time to jump start and explore the possibility of a career in Wireless Solutions because that is where IT is heading and with an Obama President, now is the time to do your home work. trust me soon as this financial crisis gets checked you will see an IT industry with a lotta vacancies therefore make that career -switch move NOW. do not forget that if you need anything in IT reach out to me and others....