Does MySql/Postgresql + Ruby/Python/Groovy solve 80% of IT problems?
bayareaguy: It depends what you mean by the terms "solve" and "IT problems".  The things you mention address at best 5% of some of the IT research problems of a decade ago[1] and even if you mean IT problems in the more mundane
sense then the answer is still no since a) most of those are really organizational problems and b) new IT problems will appear as soon as your older ones are resolved.However if the question you're really asking is "can those technologies help me reduce my effort or cost by 80% ?" then thanks to advances in hardware, services and open source in many cases the answer is yes.1- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gray/talks/gra...