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Sun, 20/07/2008 - 19:34 — stomfi

Historical Neccessity

These changes come around every 30 years or so, and developers being clever and adaptable people learn the next best system and transfer their focus to new customers.

There will be those that can't change but most of these will find jobs maintaining legacy systems for quite a while. People still find work in Cobol even today.

Similar sentiments were expressed when the industry migrated from expensive mainframe system and equally expensive software licenses, over to UNIX.

Everything was different. Users had to learn new interfaces. New macros had to be written. Forms and reports had to be redone. Documents had to be translated to new data formats. Support staff had to learn new routines.

Yet it happened despite the initial expense. The key factors were long term license cost savings. Hardware optimisation. Interoperability. Less support staff.

Looks like the same thing is happening again. This time with Linux vs legacy Microsoft systems on the software front. What'll it be on the hardware scene?

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