[dba-Tech] PCs are here to stay

No, hardly "kicking the can down the road" but we now have to wait to see is
all the predictions by the "reported" experts and our observations comes
true.

What I find most exciting is it appears that no longer is there an immediate
threat that one of two companies to completely rule the direction the
computer industry. These breakups give opportunities for the creative
geniuses out there. There are more start-ups that ever before and more
successful one. More companies are popping up everywhere. There is more and
different technologies being tested and used.

Unfortunately, Microsoft's 95 percent control of the industry crushed out
much of new technology growth. Now a days a tech can be anything they want
to be whether it is Windows, Apple, Linux, desktop, tablet, Smartphone,
cloud, SQL, NoSQL or any mixture of a thousand different flavours.

The market, even though it has matured a lot, looks not unlike the industry
in the eighties, full of energy and creativity. It is a good time to be a
programmer.

Jim  

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Shamil
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 2:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] PCs are here to stay

 Hi Hans --

"Kicking the can down the road" ;) BTW, the local equivalent would be an
idiomatic expression sounding in English as "pigeonhole". We don't have the
cans to kick down the roads or roads are not so good here and are mainly
flat so managing to kick the cans down far enough would require quite some
efforts :)

No, (I hope) I personally don't (pigeonhole).

As I have noted in parallel to my everyday development work, which is mainly
desktop and web services Windows apps, I'm also learning the new
technologies (via PluralSight, tech. books , articles etc.) with HTML5,
CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Knockout, SPA, RESTful web services,
multi-platform mobile apps being "the main targets". And all that "main
targets" can be achieved using Win7/Win8, Visual Studio 2012, SQL Server
(Express) and relatively inexpensive but effective enough IIS-based Web
hosting...

You know I have worked with many information media, technologies and
programming languages starting with punch tapes and cards, mainframes,
minicomputers, macro-assemblers, PL/I, C, C++, Pascal,... used to use
command line (in RSX-11M/PDP-11) quite a lot, patched RSX-11M core to get my
system utilities to work... - and currently I and my customers are satisfied
with MS Windows and Windows-based custom software development is that
desktop or web services or web sites...

Let's get back to this thread subject in January 2014?

-- Shamil

Вторник, 15 января 2013, 1:52 -08:00 от Hans-Christian Andersen
<hans.andersen at phulse.com>:
>Kicking the can down the road, are we?
>
>;)
>
>
>On 2013-01-15, at 1:43 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru > wrote:
>
>> Hi Jim and Hans --
>> 
>> <<<
>> So the truth is we will have to wait and see and re-visit this topic in
>> another year and then it will be obvious whose crystal ball was clearest.
>>>>> 
>> Yes. It could be more obvious...
>> 
>> -- Shamil
>> 
>> 
>> Понедельник, 14 января 2013, 19:18 -08:00 от "Jim Lawrence" <
accessd at shaw.ca >:
>>> Good article.
>>> 
>>> The one point that has been made is that it is not Linux that is
fighting to
>>> get a spot on the desktop (fact is they do NO advertising or promote)
but
>>> that Microsoft by its current products and attitude has caused this huge
>>> vacuum on the PC desktop.
>>> 
>>> We each live in a tiny micro-cosmos of the computer world and you are
making
>>> your assessment from your immediate clients and I am doing the same.
>>> 
>>> So the truth is we will have to wait and see and re-visit this topic in
>>> another year and then it will be obvious whose crystal ball was
clearest.
>>> 
>>> Jim
>> <<< skipped >>>
>>> 
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