10-10-2003, 03:30 PM
I am of the view that IT profession is smelling like a rotten egg in Pakistan, due to stagnation. This stagnation is caused by low demand and high supply of IT professionals.
The high supply partially resulted from low cost pirated softwares which made it possible for IT collges to attract students by keeping the cost of IT studies low. A large no software avilable to students so they instead of developing their experties in a specific field they just tasted a bite of every software and qualified for jack of all is jack of none.
On demand side due to availability of free pirated softwares there was no need to hire a team of IT professinals by Small businesses. even if a software is needed by an enterprise it can hire only one or two IT professinals for two to three months to prepare an application. These engineers prepare this application by just using a pirated tool thus again not creating a big demand.
International market also demands applications developed on licensed tools.
I asked some of the IT graduates that why they do not attempt to make a software of their own and sell it. They say, "who will buy it? it will be pirated and will be sold for free."
Do you agree with me?
Edited by - amam_786 on Oct 11 2003 094156 AM
The high supply partially resulted from low cost pirated softwares which made it possible for IT collges to attract students by keeping the cost of IT studies low. A large no software avilable to students so they instead of developing their experties in a specific field they just tasted a bite of every software and qualified for jack of all is jack of none.
On demand side due to availability of free pirated softwares there was no need to hire a team of IT professinals by Small businesses. even if a software is needed by an enterprise it can hire only one or two IT professinals for two to three months to prepare an application. These engineers prepare this application by just using a pirated tool thus again not creating a big demand.
International market also demands applications developed on licensed tools.
I asked some of the IT graduates that why they do not attempt to make a software of their own and sell it. They say, "who will buy it? it will be pirated and will be sold for free."
Do you agree with me?
Edited by - amam_786 on Oct 11 2003 094156 AM