What microsoft has cleverly done with the CLR is made the OS redundant Linux have lost the war and they don't even know it. It is about the tools to build apps given the MS tools are consistent and well integrated they are ahead and building on their lead. Yes it is definitely faster. MS gives you a default standard. Because of the disunity within the Linux open source java camp they will never get there. If mono does its job well in implementing the CLR amd some one Puts a APS.NET compatible web server on Linux it will be all over. The OS is worth nothing platform is irrelevant now. THe CLR was a brilliant technical and business manuevre it is genius and will continue to .NET billions for MS for a long time

Solution architect MS-Windows .NET SQL Server / Oracle

I'll have a go here I have been in a few situations where a few .NET developers have replaces 6-8 java developers. THe MS platform is quicker but also you can really stuff up if you do not understand software architecture which most java :) devs do. With Linq a wolf in sheeps clothing this is really OO database it will cut a further 30% off dev time but further compound the architectural issues. Boss's and Manager's what can I say unless enough of us give up coding we will never be safe. Even a lot of coders lie and under estimate time to get the opportunity or the project they want, then they do a hack job, which everyone else spends months fixing they call that a technical lead usually. But if it hits the deadline the manager is happy (until he realises he has 3 months of bug fixing and has to rewrite half of it), this has happened the last 4 companies I have worked for exact same pattern. I find after the first screw up though the next time they are hanging on my word for a time estimate not the other guy, but strangely you can't turn that into a pay rise. In fact your boss will want to stop you coding all together and make you into a BA and dumb like him. The only solution I can see is to have architects that are allowed to write code to demonstrate how things should be done or specify carefully to developers with real power and control of the BA's

Solution architect MS-Windows .NET SQL Server / Oracle

I have seen people I knocked back at interview because they lacked experience or language skills on free lancing sites it is a good way to enter the market if you have little or no experience, a good way to get experience. The sites I have looked at people bid each other down it is cut throat. And you possibly would end up working for $2 a day. The way into IT is often through the backdoor I think free lancing would be hard yards for not much gain if you are established as a developer

Solution architect MS-Windows .NET SQL Server / Oracle

I think mostly programmers build things so possibly builders and there are many things you can build, if I wasn't a programmer I think I would be a mechanical or civil engineer. But usually people build a tool or whatever to solve a problem or reduce work.

Solution architect MS-Windows .NET SQL Server / Oracle

Any business with capable employees can train other employees, if said employee refuses to learn or can't thats what IR laws are for its a hard world

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necessity dictates what job you do.

What are the govn's plans. These issues have been the same since the 70's same now been through a few government's. My plans work earn money pay bills

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How do people/companies make money and therefore are able to support and develop a product when it is given away. This merely proliferates propeller heads does it not as with the Linux open source distros where there is 20 different variations. Great for technical nuts but not much chop for the user even if the user is a software developer. How will java stay unified and moving forward

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Businesses will all ways say there is a shortage they want to pay the same for a developer as they do for a call centre person. We should all work for the love of what we do if we are employees. Truth is any one capable of attaining a universtiy degree is capable of programming given a little training and opportunity. You want Senior developers, architects, technical leads you have got to pay for the years of experience as in any profession. Typically in Aus for example businesses lobby government to let in skilled foreign IT graduates many who study here. Meanwhile the Aus tax payer pays for homwgrown graduates to do science and arts degrees that are of no use. The foreigners come in work cheap I have some on staff myself. If the Aus gov for example was serious about doing something about it they would get rid of the wanky degrees and make people train for IT. But the Universities in Aus make a lot of money out of foreign students paying to study (hoping also to get a work visa). Also pass many of them although there english is so poor they are unemployable here.

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