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is software developement , dying ?

Started by ketek Jan 5, 2005 at 12:21 PM 12 replies 1.4k views

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Jan 5, 2005 at 12:21 PM

Recently i've surfed the web to find some software to resolve a particular task, there were many sites offering licences and whatever, but , with this massive piracy around, is still worth to write software for living, i mean , how a company could support all the money involved in a project , if a similar one is sold on the street ( i mean in Rome, italy , ps2 piratated titles are sold literary on the road ) , is software development trapped in a never ending vortex of destruction ?

Salsa

Jan 5, 2005 at 12:24 PM

Software is no less dying than the music and movie industries. This "neverending vortex of destruction" is just a lot of hyperbole.

aidan_walsh

Jan 5, 2005 at 12:24 PM

You're making an incorrect assumption that all software development revolves around mainstream commercial applications. It doesn't.

Extrarius

Jan 5, 2005 at 12:26 PM

It might be on the way to death, but it is nowhere near the end. Software companeis (as well as movie studios etc) are still making MILLIONS in profit. I don't think the professional market (meaning software targetting companies rather than individuals) will die until PCs come equiped with high-level natural language programming capability ('Make a program to do my job' "Job Completed"), but the consumer market may be slowly falling toward freeware. Right now, though, it can definitely still be profitable to make software right now

tentoid

Jan 5, 2005 at 12:27 PM

I wouldn't worry about software development.. The world is becoming more and more computerialized (is that a word?) and almost every machine has some sort of software. And of course companies also need custom-made software for themselves etc.

jollyjeffers

Jan 5, 2005 at 12:34 PM

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Software companeis (as well as movie studios etc) are still making MILLIONS in profit

The department I work for is still developing a 35yr old piece of software, that was responsible for $1bn revenue a year recently (note: revenue != profit). Thats a lot of money given the whole department (including management and test) are ~175 people [grin]

My manager has a grand vision that one day (he said 20yrs from now) software will be written by programs, and that the "software engineering" will be more like building - take your components, link them together and let the compiler/software process the rest. No actual coding.

I'd say software development is changing, but I'm fully expecting to get a full-length career out of it in some form or another...

Jack

vNistelrooy

Jan 5, 2005 at 12:36 PM

No it doesn't.

Poisler

Jan 5, 2005 at 12:37 PM

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Original post by doodle_sketch
You're making an incorrect assumption that all software development revolves around mainstream commercial applications. It doesn't.

Bingo! I create software for a large Wall Street firm and it sure does pay the bills. I doubt I'll see my software pirated and being sold on the street any time soon.

Proprietary business software makes up a huge chunk of software development.

kSquared

Jan 5, 2005 at 12:41 PM

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Original post by Poisler
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Original post by doodle_sketch
You're making an incorrect assumption that all software development revolves around mainstream commercial applications. It doesn't.

Bingo! I create software for a large Wall Street firm and it sure does pay the bills. I doubt I'll see my software pirated and being sold on the street any time soon.

Proprietary business software makes up a huge chunk of software development.

As long as there are companies, there will be software. It's just that simple.

JexMX

Jan 5, 2005 at 12:56 PM

When computers program themselvs.. Ahhh that'll be the day.

Ainokea

Jan 5, 2005 at 1:07 PM

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When computers program themselvs.. Ahhh that'll be the day.

That will be the day that either humans will be killed by their own machines or it will be like the matrix where they grow us and plug us in to a virtual world.

I just had a thought, the matrix is and MMORPG...

Myopic Rhino

Jan 5, 2005 at 1:24 PM

Btw, ketek, if you're wondering why you're not getting email notification about the replies to this, it's because of the following:

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550 mail not accepted from blocked IP address 216.185.96.227. Please write to blacklist@mail.wind.it

I've written to them at least a half dozen times over the past six months, but I've never received a response or resolution. As one of their customers, you might be able to get a response from them.

superpig

Jan 5, 2005 at 3:01 PM

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Is software development dying?

No.

nuvem

Jan 5, 2005 at 3:01 PM

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Original post by jollyjeffers
My manager has a grand vision that one day (he said 20yrs from now) software will be written by programs, and that the "software engineering" will be more like building - take your components, link them together and let the compiler/software process the rest. No actual coding.

Except if it really is that simple, then software development will be dead :)

Well, except maybe for those rich component writers, who take a small percentage of royalties out of every product using their component.

Software development is dead!
Long live software development!

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