Sources and Ideas

The Future of Software Development: Research Phase 2

(Back to The Future of Software Development)

Below are some research problems we felt we needed to look into some more:

Software Patents

• Example of patents used in a webshop
• Dutch Anti Software Patents Site
• Petition against patents
• List of nonsense patents in software

Speed and costs of Software Development

• If you would spend less time, how much wil that save?
• Saving costs is very important! Other option to cut costs is different development methods:
  • Self writing code
  • Agile Programming

More statistics

• The use of open source
• More numbers

Interesting:

• IT departments
  • 2% only open source
  • 38% only closed source
  • 35% mixed open and closed use

Problem: TCO of Linux is 11% higher than windows

• TCO

Advice on how to beat microsoft: let the techies start developing usefull stuf in stead of cool stuf!

• Advice

Linux development: Letting MS Office work ON linux! Will this be a possible scenario maybe? Not only microsoft is flirting with open source, but linux flirting with microsoft?

As more and more companys are afraid to step Completely into linux.. would this be a logical thing? a more mixture of things? That means MS could come up with a emulator to run open source linux based software! Interesting possibility!

• Link

The FUTURE OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT : SEVEN IMPORTANT TRENDS!!

• 7 Future Trends

More XML les Dot.net in wondows longhorn!

• Twaekers.net Link: [1]

Octrooi op software

• Wikipedia NL Link: [2]

From an interview about outsourcing to india:

Builder.com: Let's move on to the issue of documentation. Do you foresee any obstacles to repurposing code developed overseas, considering that some of the documentation may not be in English?
Kevin: Documentation? We don't need no stinkin' documentation!

• Complete interview

• Outscourcing Statistics
• Trends in standards design