Stop trolling, Zaphod ... ;-) Apparently she didn't see the brand new Gartner report praising ColdFusion and advising agencies to continue their investment in the technology.
The writer is a troll, clueless, or a clueless troll :-). Check out the logic disconnect between these two statements: "it's hard to compete with products backed by expensive marketing campaigns from Microsoft and others. " "Today, it superseded by Microsoft .Net, Java, PHP and the language of the moment: open source Ruby on Rails." Last time I checked, there were no expensive marketing campaigns around PHP or Rails. So who are the "others"? Sun? She needs a better editor to check her facts. And if we're talking about skills and jobs, why is Perl missing from the list? Ruby on Rails has 118 jobs on Monster, Perl has 1800+. ColdFusion has 157. And how in the world did HTML make the list? That chick needs the boot! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_vs._Australia On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > not sure, I just got this in my inbox today. Granted, it's from a > training center. > > > > On May 19, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Dana wrote: > > > > > That's the same one from a while back, right? > > > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox > > <zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> By Linda Leung > >> > >> > >> > >> There are some things in life, like good manners, which never go out > >> of style, and there are other things, like clothing styles that fall > >> in and out of fashion, but when an IT skill falls out of favor it > >> rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any > >> of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to > >> retrain. > >> > >> 1. Asynchronous Transfer Mode: ATM was popular in the late-1990s, > >> particularly among carriers, as the answer to overworked frame relay > >> for wide-area networking. It was considered more scalable than frame > >> relay and offered inherent QoS support. It was also marketed as a LAN > >> platform but that was its weakness. According to Wikipedia, ATM > >> failed > >> to gain wide acceptance in the LAN where IP makes more sense for > >> unifying voice and data on the network. Wikipedia notes that ATM will > >> continue to be deployed by carriers that have committed to existing > >> ATM deployments, but the technology is increasingly challenged by > >> speed and traffic shaping requirements of converged voice and data > >> networks. A growing number of carriers are now using Multi-Protocol > >> Label Switching (MPLS), which integrates the label-switching > >> capabilities of ATM with the packet orientation of IP. IT skills > >> researcher Foote Partners listed ATM in its IT Skills and > >> Certification Pay Index as a noncertified IT skill that has decreased > >> in value in the last six month of 2008. > >> > >> 2. Novell NetWare: Novell's network operating system was the defacto > >> standard for LANs in the 1990s, running on more than 70% of > >> enterprise > >> networks. But Novell failed to compete with the marketing might of > >> Microsoft. Novell tried to put up a good fight by acquiring > >> WordPerfect to compete with Windows Office, but that move failed to > >> ignite the market and Novell eventually sold WordPerfect to Corel in > >> 1996. Novell certifications such as Certified Novell Engineer, Master > >> Certified Novell Engineer, Certified Novell Certified Directory > >> Engineer, and Novell Administrator were once hot certs in the > >> industry > >> but now they are featured in Foote Partners' list of skills that > >> decreased in value in 2008. Hiring managers want Windows Server and > >> Linux skills instead. > >> > >> 3. Visual J++: Skills pay for Microsoft's version of Java declined > >> 37.5% last year, according to the Foote Partners' study. The life > >> of J+ > >> +, which is available with Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, was not a > >> smooth one. Although Sun Microsystems licensed Java to Microsoft to > >> develop J++, Microsoft failed to implement some features of the > >> official Java standard while implementing other extensions of its > >> own. > >> Sun sued Microsoft for licensing violations in a legal wrangle that > >> lasted three years. Microsoft eventually replaced J++ with > >> Microsoft .Net. > >> > >> 4. Wireless Application Protocol: Yes, people were able to browse the > >> Internet in the late 1990s before Apple's iPhone. Web site operators > >> would rewrite their content to the WAP's Wireless Markup Language, > >> enabling users to access Web services such as email, stock results > >> and > >> news headlines using their cell phones and PDAs. WAP was not well > >> received at the beginning because WAP sites were slow and lacked the > >> richness of the Web. WAP has also seen different levels of uptake > >> worldwide because of the different wireless regulations and standards > >> around the world. WAP has since evolved and is a feature of > >> Multimedia > >> Messaging Service, but there are now a new generation of competing > >> mobile Web browsers, including Opera Mobile and the iPhone's Safari > >> browser. > >> > >> 5. ColdFusion: ColdFusion users rave that this Web programming > >> language is easy to use and quick to jump into, but as many other > >> independent software tools have experienced, it's hard to compete > >> with > >> products backed by expensive marketing campaigns from Microsoft and > >> others. The language was originally released in 1995 by Allaire, > >> which > >> was acquired by Macromedia (which itself was purchased by Adobe). > >> Today, it superseded by Microsoft .Net, Java, PHP and the language of > >> the moment: open source Ruby on Rails. A quick search of the > >> Indeed.com job aggregator site returned 11,045 jobs seeking PHP > >> skills > >> compared to 2,027 CF jobs. Even Ruby on Rails, which is a much newer > >> technology receiving a major boost when Apple packaged it with OS X > >> v10.5 in 2007, returned 1,550 jobs openings on Indeed.com. > >> > >> 6. RAD/Extreme Programming: Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s > >> the > >> rapid application development and extreme programming development > >> philosophies resulted in quicker and more flexible programming that > >> embraced the ever changing needs of customers during the development > >> process. In XP, developers adapted to changing requirements at any > >> point during the project life rather than attempting to define all > >> requirements at the beginning. In RAD, developers embraced > >> interactive > >> use of structured techniques and prototyping to define users' > >> requirements. The result was accelerated software development. > >> Although the skills were consistently the highest paying in Foote > >> Partners survey since 1999, they began to lose ground in 2003 due to > >> the proliferation of offshore outsourcing of applications > >> development. > >> > >> 7. Siebel: Siebel is one skill that makes a recurring appearance in > >> the Foote Partners' list of skills that have lost their luster. > >> Siebel > >> was synonymous with customer relationship management in the late-90s > >> and early 2000s, and the company dominated the market with a 45% > >> share > >> in 2002. Founded by Thomas Siebel, a former Oracle executive with no > >> love lost for his past employer, Siebel competed aggressively with > >> Oracle until 2006 when it was ultimately acquired by the database > >> giant. Siebel's complex and expensive CRM software required experts > >> to > >> install and manage. That model lost out to the new breed of software- > >> as-a-service (SaaS) packages from companies such as Salesforce.com > >> that deliver comparable software over the Web. According to the > >> U.K.'s > >> ITJobsWatch.com site, Siebel experts command an average salary of > >> GBP52,684 ($78,564), but that's a slide from GBP55,122 a year ago. > >> Siebel is ranked 319 in the job research site's list of jobs in > >> demand, compared to 310 in 2008. > >> > >> 8. SNA: The introduction of IP and other Internet networking > >> technologies into enterprises in the 1990s signaled the demise of > >> IBM's proprietary Systems Network Architecture. According to > >> Wikipedia, the protocol is still used extensively in banks and other > >> financial transaction networks and so SNA skills continue to appear > >> in > >> job ads. But permanent positions seeking SNA skills are few and far > >> between. ITJobsWatch.com noted that there were three opening for > >> permanent jobs between February and April, compared to 43 during the > >> same period last year. Meanwhile, companies such as HP offer > >> consultants with experience in SNA and other legacy skills such as > >> OpenVMS and Tru64 Unix for short-term assignments. > >> > >> 9. HTML: We're not suggesting the Internet is dead but with the > >> proliferation of easy to use WYSIWYG HTML editors enabling non- > >> techies > >> to set up blogs and Web pages, Web site development is no longer a > >> black art. Sure, there's still a need for professional Web developers > >> (see the ColdFusion entry above for a discussion about Java and PHP > >> skills) but a good grasp of HTML isn't the only skill required of a > >> Web developer. Professional developers often have expertise in Java, > >> AJAX, C++ and .Net, among other programming languages. HTML as a > >> skill > >> lost more than 40% of its value between 2001 and 2003, according to > >> Foote Partners. > >> > >> 10. COBOL: Is it dead or alive? This 40-year-old programming language > >> often appears in lists of dying IT skills but it also appears in as > >> many articles about organizations with legacy applications written in > >> Cobol having a hard time seeking workers with Cobol skills. IBM cites > >> statistics that 70% of the world's business data is still being > >> processed by Cobol applications. But how many of these applications > >> will remain in Cobol for the long term? Even IBM is pushing its > >> customers to "build bridges" and use service-oriented architecture to > >> "transform legacy applications and make them part of a fast and > >> flexible IT architecture." > >> About the Author > >> > >> Linda Leung is an independent writer/editor in California. Reach > >> Linda > >> at leung...@gmail.com. > >> > >> > >> So if you want to love me > >> then darlin' don't refrain > >> Or I'll just end up walkin' > >> In the cold November rain > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:297298 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
