er, tell me again how much market share and market capitalization MS has vs. Sun? MS has to take notes on how to fail as a corporation? why would MS do that? or any corporation for that matter?
Sun may have grown market share for Java, but Sun hasn't made very much money off of it (i leave looking up the earnings reports for SUNW for the last 10 years as an exercise for the reader).
at the risk of insulting the hard working sys admins out there, i'd say that you need to focus on "high touch" tech jobs. straight operations-type work will be outsourced but high touch or high-impact-to-business-capability jobs are in demand.
so get your degree, if you can make the change from admin to architect you'll find much more job security because the very nature of the work prevents it from being easily outsourced. even projects that do get outsourced to overseas need an architect to define and design the solution to fit the goals and capabilities of the enterprise.
it's true that you'll probably become an expert in presenting ideas via visio and powerpoint (or in Impress) rather than typing away in a terminal and coding, but that seems to be the nature of the job market.
it's all about being able to communicate what can and can not be done that is of high value to an enterprise these days. so you'll have to know all the technology involved and how to interpret business requirements (as well as communicate and negotiate with the business folks defining the requirements) but you won't personally be implementing or maintaining the technologies to support the capability in the solution that you design.
It's always amazed me how delicate religion seems to be. I mean really: "'religious themes' of the film's storyline, about the search for the creator and control of the human race, may cause 'crises'".
Apparently it's exceedingly easy to point out that the emperor has no clothes, at least when it comes to religion.
Either that or one piece of fantasy (the movie) can easily supplant the older fantasy (the religion) in the minds of the rubes (the worshippers).
Just my $.02.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
People buy new cars and houses, but that doesn't require them to relearn how to drive or live.
Changing to SO or OO would have people changing how they approach word processing or any other office application.
Changing to SO or OO is like having people who've driven cars as their only mode of transportation to change to piloting ultralights. Or perhaps moving from the US to UK and learning to drive a stick shift from the other side of the car.
MS Office is prevalent because "...Contrast that to OpenOffice.org, which nudges the user more firmly towards styles. Managing the different layers of styles in OpenOffice.org can be tricky and confusing, so Koch spends a considerable amount of time and space on that..."
Simply stated OO and SO are difficult to use because changing people's paradigms for operating a word processor is very difficult.
Most users would find it easier to create a fairly complex document in Word than in either SO or OO.
The market for SO and OO should be NOT to match MS Office in features, but to make it simpler to use utilizing a paradigm most users are used to. I actually preferred MS Office when it was simpler and wasn't so "cute" with help and additional complexity.
Why aren't the developers for OO and SO not looking for a simple and elegant solution to opening and editing and creating Word, Excel, PowerPoint compatible files? They should apply the OpenSource paradigm to Office applications.
I recommend D&T's Secure eBusiness practice. Of course I recommend them because I work for them.;)
We have done security work for banks, financial institutions, and government bodies. We perform attack and penetration testing, security product integrations, and overall review of security practices and environments.
Send me an email at hacho@deloitte.com if you want to discuss.
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Novell Sentinel (formerly eSecurity) should meet your needs.
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er, tell me again how much market share and market capitalization MS has vs. Sun? MS has to take notes on how to fail as a corporation? why would MS do that? or any corporation for that matter?
Sun may have grown market share for Java, but Sun hasn't made very much money off of it (i leave looking up the earnings reports for SUNW for the last 10 years as an exercise for the reader).
at the risk of insulting the hard working sys admins out there, i'd say that you need to focus on "high touch" tech jobs. straight operations-type work will be outsourced but high touch or high-impact-to-business-capability jobs are in demand.
so get your degree, if you can make the change from admin to architect you'll find much more job security because the very nature of the work prevents it from being easily outsourced. even projects that do get outsourced to overseas need an architect to define and design the solution to fit the goals and capabilities of the enterprise.
it's true that you'll probably become an expert in presenting ideas via visio and powerpoint (or in Impress) rather than typing away in a terminal and coding, but that seems to be the nature of the job market.
it's all about being able to communicate what can and can not be done that is of high value to an enterprise these days. so you'll have to know all the technology involved and how to interpret business requirements (as well as communicate and negotiate with the business folks defining the requirements) but you won't personally be implementing or maintaining the technologies to support the capability in the solution that you design.
It's always amazed me how delicate religion seems to be. I mean really: "'religious themes' of the film's storyline, about the search for the creator and control of the human race, may cause 'crises'".
Apparently it's exceedingly easy to point out that the emperor has no clothes, at least when it comes to religion.
Either that or one piece of fantasy (the movie) can easily supplant the older fantasy (the religion) in the minds of the rubes (the worshippers).
Just my $.02.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
I don't think that's a generalization.
People buy new cars and houses, but that doesn't require them to relearn how to drive or live.
Changing to SO or OO would have people changing how they approach word processing or any other office application.
Changing to SO or OO is like having people who've driven cars as their only mode of transportation to change to piloting ultralights. Or perhaps moving from the US to UK and learning to drive a stick shift from the other side of the car.
MS Office is prevalent because "...Contrast that to OpenOffice.org, which nudges the user more firmly towards styles. Managing the different layers of styles in OpenOffice.org can be tricky and confusing, so Koch spends a considerable amount of time and space on that..."
Simply stated OO and SO are difficult to use because changing people's paradigms for operating a word processor is very difficult.
Most users would find it easier to create a fairly complex document in Word than in either SO or OO.
The market for SO and OO should be NOT to match MS Office in features, but to make it simpler to use utilizing a paradigm most users are used to. I actually preferred MS Office when it was simpler and wasn't so "cute" with help and additional complexity.
Why aren't the developers for OO and SO not looking for a simple and elegant solution to opening and editing and creating Word, Excel, PowerPoint compatible files? They should apply the OpenSource paradigm to Office applications.
I recommend D&T's Secure eBusiness practice. Of course I recommend them because I work for them. ;)
We have done security work for banks, financial institutions, and government bodies. We perform attack and penetration testing, security product integrations, and overall review of security practices and environments.
Send me an email at hacho@deloitte.com if you want to discuss.
Regards.