外购软件
Globalization Mashup for Tech Skills, Rates
非常有趣看 外购市场为软件开发 当前他们的软件开发采购数据用一个视觉方式的公司。 图表包括生产商和消费者数字。 非常有趣，感谢您和了不起的工作!
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背景知识从 oDesk新闻发布:
帕洛阿尔托，今天加州(2006 11月7日) - oDesk (www.oDesk.com)，一个网上市场为遥远的工作和O’ Reilly媒介在全球性编程的劳工的经济宣布合作出版数据和趋向。 “oDesk经济”网站的早Beta版(beta.oDesk.com/economy)在旧金山将被展示在网2.0会议这个星期，并且生产版本在2007年的早期将发射。
“当事务移动在网上网2.0时代，我们得以进入对一一些的新的数据集关于我们的经营活动。 Using these newly available sources, the O’Reilly Radar team has developed new techniques to analyze and visualize emerging technology trends,” said Roger Magoulas, Research Director at O’Reilly. “We’ve worked with Amazon to analyze data on technology book sales, with Simply Hired to analyze online tech job listings, and with Technorati to analyze blogs. Now we’re pleased to partner with oDesk to get access to their data on global supply and demand for technical projects and programmer hourly rates, to find out what’s hot and what’s not in technology.”
The oDesk Economy website will use data visualization tools developed by O’Reilly to display and identify emerging patterns of usage for programming languages and technical skills around the world. O’Reilly will analyze projects collected from thousands of contract programming and technical assignments conducted by oDesk buyers and service providers in over 50 countries.
The World is NOT Flat (Editor’s Note: See Flat World post The World is NOT Flat)
“To paraphrase Thomas Friedman, the world of technology is flat - globalization and telecommunication have created a level playing field for the global technical skills market,” said Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk. “However, the hourly rates being paid for software developers with top technical skills are definitely NOT flat. At oDesk we’re seeing substantial growth on our marketplace for projects using Web 2.0 programming languages like Ajax, PHP, and MySQL.”
