For as long as I can remember there has been a "programmer shortage". The global financial crisis will force many consumers and businesses to reduce their expenditure. I don't however think it will result in a reduction of opportunities for wealth creation through innovation, particularly in web applications.
It's easy to slip into The Pie Fallacy, "You can't make the pie larger". There are many opportunities out there to reduce costs/increase revenue that haven't been explored because we've been too busy. When the customers stop banging on our doors we may need to take our ideas to them. In many cases, we're in a better position to see the easy gains customers won't know possible. Will more consumers turn to the web to save money? Australians never took to mail order like the Americans did. Maybe more people will buy their pens online for 40% off? http://justwrite.com.au/ Will smaller businesses turn to SaaS or bespoke web applications to reduce costs, and increase revenue? Will companies want to reduce their CapEx by making use of Infrastructure as a Service? Innovation in technology drives economic growth and is key to wealth creation. We need to think more about growing the our pie by offering value to clients who don't realize what's possible. - Mike Pie Fallacy: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Craig Ambrose <craigambr...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm not sure if anyone else is feeling like business is a little > different to what it was a couple of years ago. I'm a bit concerned > about it, and I've decided to drop my rates fairly dramatically. I'd > be interested to hear what others are doing. More on my thoughts here: > > http://blog.craigambrose.com/past/2009/3/16/keeping_it_real/ > > cheers, > > Craig > > ------- > Craig Ambrose > Cogent Consulting > http://www.craigambrose.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
