Sure looks that way from where I sit too. There is no clamoring for replacing thousands of Windows (usually XP ) boxes with tablets with no keyboards or iphones. Those definitely have their place but there are awful lot of boxes out there that need to run SQL Server and Oracle apps in Java and .NET and the idea that somehow all those folks are going wake up one morning and say "Hey, I know, let switch all this stuff to mySql, noSql, Postgres and do our work on iPads because then we'll be cool" ...
I think it is just a new, big market and that's great and I'll probably write apps for it - but I won't quit my day job <g>
>Some of the acne set grudingly followed suit, but many didn't.
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>The retail market and the corporate market occasionally overlap, but not often.
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>Looking at a balance sheet and looking at your daughter's new dog are really two unrelated functions with differing requirements.
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>I follow the small to mid-sized corporate market and most of our clients are too busy worrying about a customer or a key supplier who went bankrupt to deal with gadgets.
>Just the other day, I was talking about photography to the owner of a good sized manufacturing company that uses a lot of tech, and he adked:
>"You have a digital camera? - Are they better than film?"
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>I like Deep Throat's advice:
>"Follow the money!"
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- Thomas Hardy
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