[DUG] Skill shortage?

[Paul McKenzie]

I have never seen new remote (tele-commuting) employee jobs for Delphi, only contractor, or long 
term employees going for telecommuting...

Regards
Paul McKenzie
Wellington
New Zealand


David O'Brien wrote:
> Just as an aside from the current conversation, I would seriously look at a
> Delphi job if the company didn't need me on site. Living in Palmerston North
> and don't really want to move.
> 
> Delphi 1 to 2005, TPv3 to Borland Pascal. (Even Turbo Vision: That was
> interesting)
> 
> What are peoples views on tele-commuting?
> Or do I just have to bite the bullet and move?
> 
> Secondly, how do employers rate a good programmer?
> 
> David O'Brien
> (dave at iccs.co.nz)
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
> Behalf Of Neven MacEwan
> Sent: Friday, 15 July 2005 2:07 p.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Skill shortage?
> 
> David
> 
> This is exactly my point, .Net was a reaction to Java, XAML is reactive 
> to XUL, Freedom to inovate, bullshit, I also find in hilarious that 
> people who buy into the M$ justify it on the consistency of supply where
> recent history would indicate the opposite
> 
> What I love about OS dev products is changes are total demand driven 
> with no subtext
> 
> n
> 
> 
> David Brennan wrote:
> 
>>It is a danger with .NET. Compare with Internet Explorer. IE got mega
> 
> bucks
> 
>>thrown at it by Microsoft because they perceived a threat that Netscape
>>could eventually provide an alternative to the Windows platform by having
> 
> a
> 
>>multi-platform rich interface web browser. 
>>
>>Once Microsoft had strangled Netscape and ensure market dominance they
>>suddenly killed IE development. Almost all of the new technologies which
> 
> had
> 
>>been under development for a richer browser environment were effectively
> 
> put
> 
>>on hold at the same time... which was probably Microsoft's plan from the
>>start. 
>>
>>I see some parallels here. Java was getting too much popularity behind it
>>and it's cross platform nature and rich interface potential was/is a
> 
> serious
> 
>>threat. So .NET is unleashed upon the world.
>>
>>The difference is that Java isn't likely to die like Netscape did. So
>>Microsoft may end up having to push .NET as their long term solution
> 
> rather
> 
>>than just using it for a single battle. Only time will tell I guess.
>>
>>David.-----Original Message-----
>>From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
> 
> On
> 
>>Behalf Of Neven MacEwan
>>Sent: Friday, 15 July 2005 1:06 p.m.
>>To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
>>Subject: Re: [DUG] Skill shortage?
>>
>>RE:
>>
>>
>>
>>>There are some big shops still using as far as I can tell, but a lot have
>>>moved to .NET over the last 2 years.
>>
>>
>>Now that M$ have sucessfully used .net to restrict Java in the 
>>middleware area, will they focus on the UI again and push XAML
>>
>>In which case these guys will have to move again
>>
>>bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, 
>>bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, 
>>bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, 
>>bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, 
>>bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah..
>>
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