Open Source: Skills Shortage Could Mean Growing Pains for Open Source

Linux News: Open Source: Skills Shortage Could Mean Growing Pains for Open Source LinuxInsider has an article about a possible Linux Skills shortage in the near future. These conclusions are coming from a Forrester Research report, Dice.com report and interviews with other IT managers.

Contracting these ideas are Novell and RedHat on the other side who claim they are not seeing any shortages of people at all. Novell and RedHat are looking at the ease of retraining Unix people and the belief that new college grads have better open source skills than in the past.

It will be interesting to see how these ideas play out over the near future.