A little learning...

["Shields, Ken" <kenshields@xxxxxxx>]

        I've been watching the Java/VB thread for awhile now, and it has jogged 
a couple of topics which I'd like to discuss.
        Have patience.

        The tendency today is for companies to NOT train their IT staff to any 
great degree, this has been a growing
        pattern for the last twenty years or more.
        Good or bad, it's just a fact of life to-day.
        I mentioned to a co-worker the other day, that it seems rather ironic, 
that the IT industry has spent several decades
        improving on the efficiency of delivery of systems, including Fourth 
generation languages, just to have it all 
        revert back twenty years.
        Hello,.... windoze has us coding those same old programs, just so they 
will look pretty on their platform.
        The other disturbing trend, and there was a news media program on this 
subject a few days ago , was the 
        increasingly large amount of coding, that is being contracted and 
written off shore in many foreign countries.
        Computer programming , it would appear, is going the way of less 
expensive labor pools overseas, 
        The concern as to which language to learn, may be mundane, if all the 
solutions come from Taiwan, or India.
        I know, I know, ..Once this difficult aspect of business is handled 
off-shore, it will give us professionals so much more
        time to do more productive things, like look for work...
 

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Ken Shields
Oshawa systems group
Works 81, Oshawa Ontario
(905) 725-1144 Ext 326