+++ Puneet Lakhina [20/06/08 13:29 +0530]: >>> >>> >> To begin with, they are more expensive to recruit, and salaries (that I >> last saw) lie somewhere between (and beyond) their inherent capabilities >> and the market rate, if you know what I mean. :) In short, it is more >> diffcult for smaller companies and government organizations to compete >> with the market for them. >> > >So what you are saying is, get the PHP guy, he is cheap coz nobody wants >him, and hel stay coz nobody will want him.
No, I didn't say that. You are putting those words in my mouth. I gave a very good business context why they might be paid less. But I also mentioned that the gap between their availability and Java programmers is decreasing. Why do you thing that is happening? That is because more and more organizations are catching on to the cost-effectiveness of LAMP solutions - the quick turn around that it can give them, the shorter learning curve for people wanting to enter the field, the ease in which a LAMP solution can be maintained as compared to a Java one, etc. Also with regards to salary, yes, LAMP programmers might be under-paid as compared to Java ones. People will have find exceptions to what I am saying here, but this has been true for many small to medium scale Java applications that I have seen: They are over-engineered. If a small database app can be made in 2-3 scripts running on a low end server in LAMP, it will require a more powerful computer, a longer development cycle, more expensive developers and a more complex app (Tomcat/Jboss/etc) if it is done in web based Java applications. This stays true for quite a few applications if you go higher up in the app complexity scale. Given this context, it is probably more apt to say that Java programmers are over paid for the value they create as compared to LAMP programmers, and the market would soon take care of this anomaly (and it already is). Please take all my opinions with a grain of salt though, as my last experience with Java apps (though intensive) was quite a few years ago. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
