Monday, January 19, 2009

Economic Downturn Not Necessarily Bad for Developers

From DevX Editor's Blog, january 8, 2009...

I've read a lot recently about the economy, including a number of prognostications about how the downturn will affect IT. But most predictions ignore some basic IT facts. A downturn in the general economy may foreshadow a downturn in hardware and commercial software sales, but it probably heralds a relative increase in IT expenditure. That's because one of the primary ways companies can save money these days is by automating tasks that have traditionally been performed by humans.

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