Virtual Directory Job Trends

One of the key indicators of technology and its level of entrenchment is the number of job postings looking for someone with a particular skill. It seems most people have already found indeed.com, but I wanted to use it to illustrate the trending in the virtual directory market.

First, I took a look at the virtual directory postings versus the metadirectory postings. Metadirectories are more and more becoming a thing of the past. Their provisioning rules can be complex and difficult to implement compared to the relative simplicity and agility of virtual directories. Here's the chart.



It looks like the crossover point was in the first half of 2007.

Now let's take a peek at the absolute number of job postings for the two largest virtual directory vendors: Radiant Logic Inc and Oracle.



Opportunities for both are up and down over time but increasing overall. It looks like data virtualization has a solid future.