> > > >> There sure are lots of Java jobs out there. �There are also lots of > >> ColdFusion and VB.net jobs out there, as well as companies still using > >> CVS. > > > > And Google is backing how many of those? Zero I believe. > > Yes indeed...of course, Adobe and Microsoft aren't exactly small > potatoes, as much as we might like them to be... > > I believe that the main reason there are so many jobs for this technologies has more to do with the investment made by the users than the fact that they are more productive or not, than using the best/newest available technology.
After paying to get an IDE, training , consulting, certifications and spending long hours to understand something, if someone comes to a small/medium development company offering something like ruby/rails/linux, they will mostly refuse it, even if its reliable, better, more productive, faster, easier,flexible and secure. There is a huge resistance to that change. In my case im use to working a lot with microsoft technology and sometimes things come up that not even the guys at MS know what to do and the solutions is to reinstall/format, even after folloing best practices , manuals and whatever. So when something happens and has a mysterious solution, some one gets a lot of money for fixing it(me in this case) but is something that should have never happen in the first place. Take antiviruses for example, there are people making huge money thanks to that. My point is there is more people getting benefits from the complex/static/mysterious/old/expensive technologies than from lets say, your average open source app so we will be see java/.net for quite some time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
