You hear a lot of noise about CBD (Component Based Programming), EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and the like. It seems there is a shift from large numbers of people doing custom development to smaller numbers of people doing component development for an increasingly small number of increasingly dominant companies, plus a growing legion of people customizing and cobbling these components together. E.g. look at the SAP ecosystem. This has obvious implications for skill set demand.
On the other hand, maybe we are just doing what we have always done, leveraging standard software (e.g. compilers and OSes) so we can concentrate on higher level functionality?
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On the other hand, maybe we are just doing what we have always done, leveraging standard software (e.g. compilers and OSes) so we can concentrate on higher level functionality?
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