Marc Andreessen wrote an amazing article on how software development is become a big trend (duh), followed by the TechCrunch crew with how great the job market is if you are a coder. Here is a short sound bite from Marc’s article:

This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility. Both moves surprised the tech world. But both moves are also in line with a trend I’ve observed, one that makes me optimistic about the future growth of the American and world economies, despite the recent turmoil in the stock market.

The article is just great and I totally agree with what he says. Software is the future of the global economy, and the American economy needs to really harness this. The platforms that are emerging allow businesses/developers to sell their software to a global economy. The iPhone and Android platforms give you access to sell your apps, the web provides an even broader market. And most importantly more and more people are comfortable using online software for more and more of what they do.

Just look at what has happened with WordPress, they provide an eco-system and now an entire economy has emerged around theme/plugin sales for that app. This is the reason why we created our startup WebPub. It is going to eventually be an app store for every web app and supporting files out there, Magento, WordPress, Drupal, ModX, etc. We want to allow designers/developers anywhere the ability to sell their themes/plugins/add-ons easily.

TechCrunch also does a good job of explaining why despite high unemployment it is really hard to find developers. And why we need to really do everything we can to teach programming in school and expose it to more people so that hopefully more people develop a passion for it.

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