alphadogg writes "The open source industry in 2008 will be marked by more news out of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and other big IT vendors, less start-up funding, more M&A activity, and an increasingly serious talent shortage. That's all according to Raven Zachary, open source research director for The 451 Group, which is holding its 2nd Annual Client Conference in Boston this week. One example of the talent shortage will be people with expertise in the open source Java servlet middleware called Tomcat that comes from the Apache Foundation. "There are 25 or so core contributors to that project," Zachary said. "Over the past four or five years that number has stayed virtually identical...but the growth of Tomcat has been astronomical."" Link to Original Source
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