I honestly would not count on Microsoft owning the majority of the
market twenty years from now. Don't put all you eggs in one basket.
Learn how virtualization improves the efficiency and availability of IT
resources and applications. Run multiple operating systems and learn new
concepts, look into cloud computing and open source.
Goto
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html
http://www.unixprogram.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
We all know that Microsoft has the market, and if you are a certified MS
professional in todays market you will be employed without much effort.
As an independent developer, Microsoft allows free downloads of visual
studio, MS SQL, and many other development tools. Still your development
of Microsoft solutions are limited to the Microsoft platform, and
moreover, theirs no simplicity!!!
Look at the direction technology has taken in operating systems. Twenty
years ago, how simple things were and by the end of the day it just
worked! Like Bill and Dave's Excellent machine, the HP3000, MPE. Grace
Hoppers COBOL, the Image database, and the View3000 user interface. The
“C” language has these same attributes of simplicity. As the years have
gone by lots of extraneous “stuff” has been added to these simple
computing concepts.
As for Windows, owning the majority of the market and turning its
environment upside down and confusing the average user with every new
release, it's days are numbered! It will still do well for now, but the
Microsoft failure is unavoidable. Look at the the sub-notebook industry
and the embedded systems industry they are all increasing their usage of
GNU/Linux. Many countries outside the US are creating their own
GNU/Linux distributions to be widely used across their nations. The
average user is not as dumb as we think. They surf the Internet, check
on their social networking sites while streaming music and videos, while
they do their banking, all while at the office! They quickly bring up
OpenOffice to do word processing, they do not need Microsoft!
My Girlfriend has no desire to learn anything about computers, and
technology annoys her. She uses Ubuntu Linux and never calls me for
help. I installed it, and it was very simple, (easier then installing XP
on the same machine). My kids use it also, they simply looked at the
Ubuntu Linux task bar with drop-down menus, and that's all they needed
to know. Just as simple as Windows, without the hook.
I wouldn't put too much effort into learning any Microsoft technology,
look into platform independent technologies.
My $0.02.
Mike.
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] Life after the HP3000 (Career Guidance Requested)
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> I always thought I would outlive the HP3000, but funny thing happened -
> after
> 18 years of working for the same company who used HP3000s -- the HP3000s
> are still there and I am not. Now I'm living unemployed in a non-mainframe
> world as a 45-year old with only mainframe skills. I'd love to hear other
> people's stories of how they made that adjustment -- in terms of what sort
> of
> retraining was done, other alternative paths taken, etc. I'm especially
> interested in what my next steps should be to retool for the .NET
> environment
> as that seems to be predominent in my region of the country. Thanks!
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