Software Industry

Well, I have not spent much time in this industry, so this post might feel unjust to a few people reading it. But frankly, everything you read here is my personal opinion. As far as I am concerned, I have spent a whopping 3 yrs in this industry where work is something you need to create and then sell.

Hi, this is Ashish Singhal, a Software Engineer. Today I am here to present a few thoughts of mine on the industry I work in. Well lets start with defining Software according to my dictionary. "Software is a combination of what you know i.e. the tools used, programming languages, operating systems etc. and what you architect with what you know i.e. logic."

With the advent of this relatively young industry, people have laid importance on the fact that "knowlegde (derived from information)" is the driving power in todays world. Pieces of information potrayed in a specific way aids understanding of an individual and drives an organization.

Now given this background I would like to start with what I feel about this industry. This industry has become the means of knowledge sharing for the whole world now. This industry is driving technology with in turn makes a persons life easier. But with the rapid pace at which this industry is growing there is a large percentage of people going berzerk as how to use the products, services of this industry even without knowing how it would really help them or their organization. Its just a trend that everyone wishes to follow, to make your organization flashy.
Similarly the other side of the coin is Software companies are coming up with ideas of thier own and trying to convince other organisations as to how their idea is beneficial for them. This might be true most of the times, but does not work out all of the time. In this event a Software company comes up with an idea, and convices other company to buy it. The result is a rat race, i.e. all the other companies enter the market with the same idea and start pitching in new customers.

Readers who managed to reach this paragraph might be thinking what is this guy trying to prove here. Well my point is, if this really is a rat race what is its future? Till when companies will keep coming up with ideas. There would be threshold where other organisations feel that i need no software anymore. What happens to these industries and the people working there?

I have no references to back my argument but would like people to post on what would be the future of this industry? I might be wrong and would ask you to point it out for me.

Thanks and although you might not have enjoyed this post (this being my first one), I hope this post will give you something to think about. I promise I will come up with better ones in the future.

-Ashish