Agree with you. FOSS has place in the ISP and other tech oriented market like mobiles, payments and even web development. In the plain vanilla enterprise market of MBA/accounting/King III aware Zim market, risk rules and corp orates will pay obscenely for peace of mind like you said. As a consultant, I make a living telling board members to keep away from FOSS for the skills reasons I have given. I also do a bit of placement of programming skills in the regional enterprise market (outside SA) and VB demands are quite high. I must accept that maybe I do not check the improvement regularly but the last survey on programming skills done by tech zim proved that proprietary (i.e. VB) still rules. Tertiary institutions also seem to be pushing VB so that ensures that that market is covered.
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