The recent drop in unemployment rates was extra good news for the technology sector. The Linux Foundation’s Jennifer Cloer highlighted the newest Salary Guide’s indication that tech jobs will experience the greatest pay increase in 2013! Rated as the top most lucrative tech job, it looks like Mobile App Developers will have even more to celebrate this New Years. More on this and other open source news from the week:
- Jennifer Cloer published “Top Five Tech Jobs Point to Opportunity for Linux Pro’s,” on Linux.com about the 2013 Salary Guide anticipating technology jobs will see the highest salary increase in the next year.
- On ZDNet, Dennis Howlett reported on Sears’s decision to switch its IT infrastructures to Hadoop and Linux systems, in the article, “Sears Eschews IBM/Oracle for Open Source and Self Build.”
- “Jim Whitehurst’s Big Edea: Effective Leaders Must Operate as Catalysts,” was posted on opensource.com by Anna Eusebio about the CEO of Red Hat’s discussion at the Big Idea Forum in North Carolina.
- Todd R. Weiss interviewed Jono Bacon on the growing importance of community managers within enterprises, in the eWeek article, “Ubuntu’s Jono Bacon Talks Open-Source Community Management.”
- “Hello Humanoids, This is the Open Source Robotics Foundation” was Adrian Bridgwater’s ComputerWeekly blog on the formation of the Open Source Robotics Foundation.
- Gijs HILLENIUS posted ”Contribution of Open Source to Europe’s Economy: 450 Billion Per Year,” on the European Commission Joinup about Carlo Daffara’s research on the savings open source software has provided to the European economy.
Now hurry up and downloaded the source code for the Samsung Galaxy Note II!
