Is Biztalk the most lucrative skill out there?
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The reason I ask this question is because pretty much anyone who is using this tech at the senior level is in the six figure range. What is your opinion on this and also I hear that sharepoint is lucrative also..whats everyones take on this?Thanks
Don't know about now - The last time I touched BizTalk was back near version 1.0 (must always remember never to touch MS code until v3.0), it was a god-forsaken mess. I ended up writing a tool that hacked the workflow scripts in the background to make them do what they were supposed to. Also it didn't support XSDs then, and what it did have for schema definition MS had already labelled as an orphan that they weren't going to continue supporting - although I really had to search hard to find that out. However, these days it looks like the things been completely rewritten (twice!) so it might not be such a painful experience. Although at the time I was doing BizTalk work I was also writing massively recursive XSLT so my brain was kind of screwed anyway - perhaps you shouldn't take my advice ;) But if someone wants to pay me a high six figure sum for getting BizTalk to actually do what you want - then drop me a line.
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If you can bare to work with them, you deserve to be well compensated.
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The reason I ask this question is because pretty much anyone who is using this tech at the senior level is in the six figure range. What is your opinion on this and also I hear that sharepoint is lucrative also..whats everyones take on this?Thanks
I had to use it for an XML-to-database import, and BizTalk 2006 is a convoluted, slow, and bloated guano sandwich. :~ ;) Or so I thought until I looked at a book on BizTalk written for the previous version. By that standard BTS 2006 is actually good. It didn't help that what I needed to do was outside the scope of BizTalk. BizTalk is designed to automate the flow of data between different parts - receiving data, transforming it, and passing it on to something else. It's not designed to copy files, perform complex database queries in the process of transforming said data, etc. Perhaps salaries are so high for BTS experts because nobody would otherwise touch the software? ;P Mike
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The reason I ask this question is because pretty much anyone who is using this tech at the senior level is in the six figure range. What is your opinion on this and also I hear that sharepoint is lucrative also..whats everyones take on this?Thanks
I work for a CRM company. Anything to do with Business Rules application and implemention commands high respect $$$.
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The reason I ask this question is because pretty much anyone who is using this tech at the senior level is in the six figure range. What is your opinion on this and also I hear that sharepoint is lucrative also..whats everyones take on this?Thanks
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The reason I ask this question is because pretty much anyone who is using this tech at the senior level is in the six figure range. What is your opinion on this and also I hear that sharepoint is lucrative also..whats everyones take on this?Thanks
Not compared to Oracle performance tuning people...
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I had to use it for an XML-to-database import, and BizTalk 2006 is a convoluted, slow, and bloated guano sandwich. :~ ;) Or so I thought until I looked at a book on BizTalk written for the previous version. By that standard BTS 2006 is actually good. It didn't help that what I needed to do was outside the scope of BizTalk. BizTalk is designed to automate the flow of data between different parts - receiving data, transforming it, and passing it on to something else. It's not designed to copy files, perform complex database queries in the process of transforming said data, etc. Perhaps salaries are so high for BTS experts because nobody would otherwise touch the software? ;P Mike
You should have seen the Java applications it was built in response to. Ugh.
This blanket smells like ham
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The reason I ask this question is because pretty much anyone who is using this tech at the senior level is in the six figure range. What is your opinion on this and also I hear that sharepoint is lucrative also..whats everyones take on this?Thanks
The last time I messed with it was in early 2001. My company sent me and a few others to Redmond for a week of training with the MS folks. It was a very powerful tool, although it was not the tool for our job.
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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David Wulff wrote:
If you can bare to work with them
Nudity is a requirement? :~ Hmm..maybe I should get one of those high falutin biztalk jobs, I program in the nude all the time.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
We obviously need female representation in biztalk experts here. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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David Wulff wrote:
If you can bare to work with them
Nudity is a requirement? :~ Hmm..maybe I should get one of those high falutin biztalk jobs, I program in the nude all the time.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
You probably won't believe me but I wrote that about five times switching back and forth to decide on which one was correct. :doh:
Ðavid Wulff What kind of music should programmers listen to?
Join the Code Project Last.fm group | dwulff
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You probably won't believe me but I wrote that about five times switching back and forth to decide on which one was correct. :doh:
Ðavid Wulff What kind of music should programmers listen to?
Join the Code Project Last.fm group | dwulff
I'm so gangsta I eat cereal without the milkWell in this case bear means bearing down or bearing a weight as in "I don't know if I could bear the weight of working with it". If you think about it that way then it should help. Of course someone giving advice to a amateur male stripper at a gay strip club might say "It's easy really just bare it all and bear down for the bears in the audience". ;)
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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If you can bare to work with them, you deserve to be well compensated.
Ðavid Wulff What kind of music should programmers listen to?
Join the Code Project Last.fm group | dwulff
I'm so gangsta I eat cereal without the milkDavid Wulff wrote:
If you can bare to work with them
I know you only need the computer training of a bricklayer's labourer to work with them, but do you really have to take your shirt off?
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Well in this case bear means bearing down or bearing a weight as in "I don't know if I could bear the weight of working with it". If you think about it that way then it should help. Of course someone giving advice to a amateur male stripper at a gay strip club might say "It's easy really just bare it all and bear down for the bears in the audience". ;)
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
Hey, thanks John. I find little bits like that do help to remember the correct spellings. :cool:
Ðavid Wulff What kind of music should programmers listen to?
Join the Code Project Last.fm group | dwulff
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David Wulff wrote:
If you can bare to work with them
Nudity is a requirement? :~ Hmm..maybe I should get one of those high falutin biztalk jobs, I program in the nude all the time.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
So that's what you meant by taking the summer off?:-D
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So that's what you meant by taking the summer off?:-D
What I am up to: ReadyToGiveUp(Not!)[^] What friends are up to:SQLServerCentral[^]
Normally yes. Our entire property is heavily treed at the back and sides and we have this cloth stuff over the fence in the front areas where you can see in from the road. It's the stuff they put around tennis courts to block the wind but it also is a good screen so unless you cross the ditch and put your face up against it you can't see in. Anyone who wants to see me that bad gets what they get. :) Pretty much the entire summer I'm clothingless at home (with the single exception of a strategically placed sock; there are some areas I don't want to even contemplate burning), however this summer we have a guy building a gazebo over our hot tub so sadly it's not clothing optional the last few weeks.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon