Scarcity of OS engineers --> Higher Salaries for 08

Interesting blog by Lora Bentley pointing out that with the release of the newly announced Adobe Air and MySQL's acquisition by Sun Micrososystems, the drive for hiring open-source engineers is on. With this renewed vigor in hiring in the OS sector is a commensurate jump in salaries amounting to a 7.6% boost anticipated in this year. Not bad given that people are predicting a recession. Perhaps as dollars compress, corporations are finally getting the kick in the pants needed to take OS technology seriously which, in turn, drives the market for those with expertise in this sector.

One point, at first I was a little confused by the addition of Adobe's Air in the original post, but on investigation, it does appear that Adobe has been releasing more of their code to OS and has built Air very much to meet the needs of OS engineers (see Kevin Lynch interview in Wired).