Everyone who is more or less close to the industry is aware that today there is a shortage of programmers. The number “1 resume for 5 vacancies” sounded at KIB. It is written off, ostensibly, to the fact that the country's universities did not have time to retrain from the punchers of the engineers-mathematicians to the punchers of the software engineers. They also mention the lack of teaching staff who know something more complicated than the language of control of the LOGO turtles. But, remembering myself, graduated from the university 7 years ago, I can say that even then the difference between graduation and first year in terms of the number of students was significant, and in favor of the newly-enrolled.
So, somewhere they must go. Somewhere to work. Write something. And they write.
It turns out that Microsoft Rus LLC, together with the
Foundation for the Promotion of the Development of Small Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere, annually hold a Microsoft-Business-Start competition. Helps small (legally defined) companies to receive seed financing from the state. And technology financing from Microsoft.
Naturally, there are plenty of programmers. What do their efforts go to? Want to see the projects that are among the winners this year? I will not list them all, but some simply cannot be mentioned:
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- Development and promotion of a platform for semantic integration of heterogeneous information systems, which allows to significantly reduce the cost of building, integrating and implementing integrated information systems (developed by Fyujsoft LLC). I did not quite understand what they meant. But, probably, the presence in the name of the root “fusion” obliges to such vague wording.
- SmartVideo - promotional videos on the Internet using the image of a man. It is also pretty funny. This is how the next series of Animator vs. appears. Animation - also used the image of man.
- Development and implementation of a software platform for the formation of Expert systems (the project is recommended by the FSI State Research Institute of Information Technology "Informika" as a winner of the All-Russian competition of innovative projects for graduate students and students). I marked out bold there - this is the original copied from the tender documentation. Interestingly, anyone read it at all? Or are there all the brides?
Believe me, there are a lot of such things. Among other things, among the winners are UMI.CMS, a couple of offices that want to write CRM for public money, a couple of regional portals or thematic search engines ...
Finally - a quote from the protocol:
"The total contract price was 53,250,000 (Fifty-three million two hundred fifty thousand) rubles."
The protocol itself can be
viewed here (MS Word format) .
All winners will have the opportunity to qualify for continued funding in the second and third year of development.
And we have programmers. They are busy, though not always the right things.
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