Future of Software & Open Source Programming Languages

Presented By

Ankur PateL

Why am I Qualified to Talk?• BE Electronics & Communication – 1999

• Master degree from Utah State University, USA – 2001

• Worked in Chicago, New York & Came back in 2003

• Worked in Software companies and handled hundreds of Open source programming projects

• Corporate Trainer of PHP/Perl/Ruby on Rails & Trained people at: IIM Ahmedabad, Nirma University, Wipro, HCL, Mindtree Consulting and many more companies

Future of Software is Web Based

• Desktop Software is becoming Obsolete• Example: Google Docs/Google Drive/DropBox

• In Simple terms - Cloud Computing = “Web Based Software”

Future of Software is Mobile

• More SmartPhones than PCs/Laptops

• Because of Technology advancement, Internet is available on Mobile Phones

• SMS can even trigger Web Based Application

• Demo: SMS based Registration

Open Source Programming Languages

• Big Companies like Google/Yahoo/Facebook are using Open Source Programming Languages like :

PHPPerlPythonJavaRuby

Which Language is used Majorly at -

• Google? Options: PHP/Python/ASP.NET

• Yahoo? Options: PHP/Python/Java

• Facebook? Options: PHP/Python/Perl

What is Open Source?

• Open Source = Free• Free = Open Source?

• Free is Viral & Free = BIG business Opportunity

Open Source Business Model

• Basic Free Web Based Software

• Premium Web Based Software

• Example: Box.com

Thanks for You Time

• Ankur PateL

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