We’ve all heard more than we want to about proliferating layoffs.  I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been touched in some way - either they’ve been affected themselves, or they know someone who has.  And this is a bad time to be out of work. TechCrunch has been tracking layoffs since late August and, as of December 16th, has counted 108,961 layoffs at 304 companies worldwide.

Companies who aren’t laying off are battening down.  Analyst Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities said to InfoWorld: “Campus recruiting has been scaled back, raises have been frozen.  Hiring freeze, training freeze, travel freeze, Friday beer-bash freeze, free-laundry freeze, and end to discounts on laptops are now in full effect.”  It’s cold out there!

And yet…

The open source world is actually in pretty good shape.  Matt Asay suggests in the same article that this isn’t due to superior management, “but rather a built-in throttle that scales hiring to downloads and other indicators of incoming interest in one’s open source product.  As such, we tend to hire more cautiously and only when the market has demonstrated that it can support those hires.”

And no, these aren’t sunny skies.  The economic climate is below bad and IT spending is off.  But open source is still the best way for companies to cut IT costs and the indications are that we’ll be there for the long haul.

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6 novembre 2008 : Open source solutions, R&D, and vendor contributions

“In 2002, David A. Wheeler published a well-regarded study that examined the Software Lines of Code (SLOC) present in a typical Linux distribution (Red Hat Linux 7.1). His findings? At that time it would cost over $1.2 billion to develop a Linux distribution by conventional proprietary (...)

30 octobre 2008 : Open source helps navigate a down-market

These are tough times.  Economies have tanked while debt is rising.  Real estate is down; loans of any kind are hard to get; the unemployment rate is up; disposable income is increasingly limited - and corporations are changing the way they do business. In effect, these are good times for open (...)

29 octobre 2008 : A comment on Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for Data Integration

Last month, Gartner released their latest Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. No surprise, Gartner’s analyses are still very conservative. Their analysts use mostly their rearview mirror, to look at what happened behind them, whereas they should have a radar to see what’s (...)

24 octobre 2008 : Update from Munich, Germany

Despite a thinner than usual crowd at Systems, our colleagues from Talend Germany and Cecile from the European marketing team are reporting a good event for Talend.  A lot more people are coming to the booth (as in looking for it, as opposed to stumbling upon it by chance) and are on a mission (...)

24 octobre 2008 : Talend’s Recent Innovation and Accolades

Talend’s Recent Innovation and Accolades I’ll conclude my review of the main events in Talend’s recent history with the innovation and products announcements we made between January and September 2008: We announced the availability of Talend Data Quality, the first product (...)