>Hi All ---
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>My main job function with my employer is that of design architect, that is, I look at enterprise applications -- new and legacy -- and determine the best architecture to run under. I have been seeing more and more reasons to go n-tier with a browser at the front-end and SQL Server/Oracle/DB2 at the back-end. Usually the middle tier gets done in either Tuxedo, VB, VC, VJ.
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>My point is, there seems to be little reason to use proprietary GUI's at the presentation tier. A browser works just fine, especially when you consider a trend towards thin client and presentation tiers that are nothing but screen-scrapers.
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>Sooo...legacy uses for VFP may be receding but it seems to me that there is a strong market here and growing for n-tier services programmers yet you rarely see a resume that stresses n-tier (COM, CORBA, ActiveX) experience.
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>Anyone have any thoughts on this?

John,

I agree with other posts here that the technologies are still quite new. I took a new job about 3 months ago that really excites me because I get use learn and use this stuff. I've been designated as the middle-tier expert on the development team, so I get to muck about in all kinds of things. I think this middle-tier stuff will be much more useful in the future.