Last time I checked, open source was competing most in the back-end department, which means products like operating systems, database servers, programming languages. I don't know many guys working on that sort of stuff personally. I guess if you work at Microsoft or Oracle you might be worried.
The same sort of market that exists now will still exist. Not many places can just install Joomla and run with it. You'll still need people working the backend, probably people doing templates, obviously people doing design. Stuff like Joomla doesn't cover everyone's needs out of the box. There aren't closed source products that cover everyone's needs by the same token. Much of my work over the last few years has been in working with closed source products to customise them for a customer's needs.
I work with commercial offerings in much the same way I work with open source ones. I still do admin on Windows servers as I do with Linux ones. I still develop in PHP and .Net. For me it makes little difference really.
As for those open source products, many of the developers are in fact sponsored or salaried in some way. Many businesses pay people to develop open source stuff to fit their needs.
Just because the software is given away free doesn't mean people can't make money out of it.
The same sort of market that exists now will still exist. Not many places can just install Joomla and run with it. You'll still need people working the backend, probably people doing templates, obviously people doing design. Stuff like Joomla doesn't cover everyone's needs out of the box. There aren't closed source products that cover everyone's needs by the same token. Much of my work over the last few years has been in working with closed source products to customise them for a customer's needs.
I work with commercial offerings in much the same way I work with open source ones. I still do admin on Windows servers as I do with Linux ones. I still develop in PHP and .Net. For me it makes little difference really.
As for those open source products, many of the developers are in fact sponsored or salaried in some way. Many businesses pay people to develop open source stuff to fit their needs.
Just because the software is given away free doesn't mean people can't make money out of it.