The move towards specialization has ups and downs, depending on where you live, what you do, and what your company's management thinks. As we specialize into very discreet tasks (that presumably can have very precise requirements wrapped around them) the business owners begin to gain the ability to leverage alternative methods of development. (think offshore). Now as a business owner this may (or may not) make sense, but the more offshore that happens... well you see the cycle. So it depends on where you live :) Of course, at least in the US, we have mostly caused this ourselves with the dismal public education system, but that's an argument for a different forum.
Specialization also means that should a business not want to do offshore they can now look for precise skills. I think this began to show up a couple three years ago in strength when managers started looking for very precise skills. When I moved to Atlanta I interviewed with several companies but one interview that sticks out is one where they were using Websphere Commerce. I didn't get the job and even though I have tons of experience with a competing product they wanted the exact experience (or at least that is what I was told is the reason) so you can see that even within a particular sector (lets call it server side architecture) businesses are getting even more particular. Al p.s. funny side of the story is that I got hired by a different company and eventually went on a contract to the exact company that did not hire me, to do the job I interviewed for. Seems the guy they hired didn't like the hours. So as the line goes sometimes you eat the bear, other times the bear eats you. -----Original Message----- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:16 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: Shihgian Lee Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! I don't think saying it is wrong is accurate... It is just an environment you are probably not used to. Some argue it is better that way and many say that's the way we should be moving. Not sure I agree, but some say that. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
