Just as an aside from the current conversation, I would seriously look at a Delphi job if the company didn't need me on site. Living in Palmerston North and don't really want to move.
Delphi 1 to 2005, TPv3 to Borland Pascal. (Even Turbo Vision: That was interesting) What are peoples views on tele-commuting? Or do I just have to bite the bullet and move? Secondly, how do employers rate a good programmer? David O'Brien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: Friday, 15 July 2005 2:07 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Skill shortage? David This is exactly my point, .Net was a reaction to Java, XAML is reactive to XUL, Freedom to inovate, bullshit, I also find in hilarious that people who buy into the M$ justify it on the consistency of supply where recent history would indicate the opposite What I love about OS dev products is changes are total demand driven with no subtext n David Brennan wrote: > It is a danger with .NET. Compare with Internet Explorer. IE got mega bucks > thrown at it by Microsoft because they perceived a threat that Netscape > could eventually provide an alternative to the Windows platform by having a > multi-platform rich interface web browser. > > Once Microsoft had strangled Netscape and ensure market dominance they > suddenly killed IE development. Almost all of the new technologies which had > been under development for a richer browser environment were effectively put > on hold at the same time... which was probably Microsoft's plan from the > start. > > I see some parallels here. Java was getting too much popularity behind it > and it's cross platform nature and rich interface potential was/is a serious > threat. So .NET is unleashed upon the world. > > The difference is that Java isn't likely to die like Netscape did. So > Microsoft may end up having to push .NET as their long term solution rather > than just using it for a single battle. Only time will tell I guess. > > David.-----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Neven MacEwan > Sent: Friday, 15 July 2005 1:06 p.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: Re: [DUG] Skill shortage? > > RE: > > >>There are some big shops still using as far as I can tell, but a lot have >>moved to .NET over the last 2 years. > > > Now that M$ have sucessfully used .net to restrict Java in the > middleware area, will they focus on the UI again and push XAML > > In which case these guys will have to move again > > bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, > bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, > bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, > bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, > bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah.. > -- Neven MacEwan (B.E. E&E) Ph. 09 620 1356 Mob. 027 4749 062 New Address Details =================== MWK Computer Systems 1 Taumata Rd Sandringham Auckland Ph 620 1356 Fx 620 1336 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
