Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Feb 13 15:25:13 CST 2013
Hi Shamil: What you have stated is very true. One tech can not be the best at all disciplines. But I do feel that one tech should have a good understanding of the available options and solutions. There is never one solution to a problem but many and any number would produce adequate results. That Awareness is what is most important. Like a carpenter, who can builds a house but must be aware of the requirements of the plumber, electrician, mason, roofer, etc... Modern companies when they hire a new tech are not so much concerned with what the tech knows but their ability to learn new technologies and apply them. Every company knows that within ten years everything that tech initially arrived with will be gone or changed to the point of being unrecognizable. And this leads into another good point you brought up; "Standards". This is most important or the industry, or just the company that refuses to adapt, will be gone, in but a few years. One comment that I do not fully agree with is the concept that there is, "the right tool for the right job". In this industry there are many tools, for every job and each can produce, in the right hands, the required results. As I have said before., "I know many more dead-languages than I know live ones."...and that list is getting longer every day. So forgive my lack of loyalty to any company or product; my only loyalty should be to the client. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:16 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] FYI: Microsoft's 128GB Surface Pro Sells Out At MS Online Store Just Hours After Launch Hi Jim -- <<< Mixing, matching and mashups is the new tech future. >>> Agreed. But one cannot be a good, even satisfactory, "jack of many (software development/tech.) trades". The tech. future IMO are standards, industrialization and specialization. Industrialization doesn't mean (here) that there will be no place for "one jack"/SMB software development/tech. companies - industrialization means that custom software development to be competitive will have to be driven by well educated in computer science and application development (process) engineers and managers, engineers and managers who will be taught to use "the right tool for the right job" and when for a certain project/task they will find they aren't skilled enough to apply the most suitable tool(s) they will effectively delegate that project/job to a third-party and acquire/integrate the results of their work via standard/custom (web) APIs. -- Shamil Вторник, 12 февраля 2013, 11:38 -08:00 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: >Hi Shamil: > >I would be far from anti-Microsoft especially as I have made a very good living from the OS. I must admit I would definitely like to change the direction in so many ways...ways that would open up more opportunities than less but my name is not Steve Ballmer. > >I doubt whether any company will gain control of ninety-five percent of the market, ever again but that is hardly a bad situation for techs...it is just that we have to be a jack of more trades now. > >Mixing, matching and mashups is the new tech future. > >Jim > >-----Original Message----- >From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil >Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 9:06 AM >To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues >Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] FYI: Microsoft's 128GB Surface Pro Sells Out At MS Online Store Just Hours After Launch > > Hi Jim and All -- > >I haven't seen before TechCrunch being "pro-Microsoft" so I have reposted the link on their article without checking it. I'll be more careful in the future. > >Thank you. > >-- Shamil <<< skipped >>> > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com