Well said. Another post pointed out the business connection. This is business and the Republicans exercising their fascism.
While we're on the topic of democracy, I would like to point out that the former Soviet Union didn't treat people who burned the Soviet flag very well. I suspect the Chinese don't either....
I am considered one of the "great" PICK programmers. In case you haven't heard, it's one of those systems that had its hayday in the 80's - I made a LOT of money, writing applications based on PICK as well as selling the minicomputers. Then PCs came out, and I didn't migrate as fast as I should have. I recovered from that thanks to Y2K as well as learning how to program variouw Windows environments. Using the money I had left, I banked on RFID taking off. OUCH. Now I have a document management system that really has some pretty neat features, and I'm considering going back to school (I'm 47) to brush up on a few things so I can start pursuing the Artificial Intelligence Holy Grail that had originally intrigued me 25 years ago and lose some more money - or, maybe make a LOT of money again. The moral? In IT, you MUST make a careful analysis of emerging technologies and decide what expertise will be the HOT one for the next 5 years, if you want to be a consultant. If you want to develop product, you have to guess which technology to base it on, and just as important, listen to your customers (both real and potential) and get it out FAST. If you don't do it quickly or choose the wrong technology, then the technology changes and the next competitor has something better, AND you've lost a chunk of change. The other part of successful product/corporate development is having good marketing and sales/support.
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Well said. Another post pointed out the business connection. This is business and the Republicans exercising their fascism. While we're on the topic of democracy, I would like to point out that the former Soviet Union didn't treat people who burned the Soviet flag very well. I suspect the Chinese don't either....
If you are great....
I am considered one of the "great" PICK programmers. In case you haven't heard, it's one of those systems that had its hayday in the 80's - I made a LOT of money, writing applications based on PICK as well as selling the minicomputers. Then PCs came out, and I didn't migrate as fast as I should have. I recovered from that thanks to Y2K as well as learning how to program variouw Windows environments. Using the money I had left, I banked on RFID taking off. OUCH. Now I have a document management system that really has some pretty neat features, and I'm considering going back to school (I'm 47) to brush up on a few things so I can start pursuing the Artificial Intelligence Holy Grail that had originally intrigued me 25 years ago and lose some more money - or, maybe make a LOT of money again. The moral? In IT, you MUST make a careful analysis of emerging technologies and decide what expertise will be the HOT one for the next 5 years, if you want to be a consultant. If you want to develop product, you have to guess which technology to base it on, and just as important, listen to your customers (both real and potential) and get it out FAST. If you don't do it quickly or choose the wrong technology, then the technology changes and the next competitor has something better, AND you've lost a chunk of change. The other part of successful product/corporate development is having good marketing and sales/support.