{"id":767,"date":"2009-02-11T00:12:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T00:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2009-02-11T00:12:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T00:12:48","slug":"is-the-tech-recession-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2009\/02\/11\/is-the-tech-recession-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the tech recession over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, it\u2019s just one data point. All I know is sales of FogBugz and Copilot. But what I\u2019m seeing is this: October-December 2008 were terrible\u2014sales were 20% lower than usual\u2014but starting January 5th, we saw a significant bounce <em>back<\/em> to the same level of sales as we had before this recession started, and it\u2019s continued to this day.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"side\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/11PolarBear.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sideimg\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/11PolarBear-thumbnail.jpg?w=730&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/span>This could be a fluke; it might not reflect any reality. Or it could be a sign that tech firms, for the moment, are doing reasonably well. The <a href=\"http:\/\/jobs.joelonsoftware.com\/\">Joel on Software job board<\/a> is holding steady at about 50 jobs listed, down from a peak around 100, but there are still a significant number of openings for great developers.<\/p>\n<p>Does this jive with your experience? (Comment over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/discuss.joelonsoftware.com\/default.asp?biz.5.733909.0\">Business of Software<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, it\u2019s just one data point. All I know is sales of FogBugz and Copilot. But what I\u2019m seeing is this: October-December 2008 were terrible\u2014sales were 20%&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2009\/02\/11\/is-the-tech-recession-over\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Is the tech recession over?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83KNI-cn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}