Al
What a disgrace.
This is only possible because "the industry" keeps chopping and changing so competence is hard to demonstrate or achieve. Those who follow "the MS way" would have had to rewrite data access 3-4 times since 1995 to take advantage of the latest change. Those who follow Java are worse off, Java has seen more changes in a short time than seems reasonable.
For geeks, it's great- go to work to learn the latest cool technology, ready excuse for lack of productivity ("Swing just came out, we HAVE to use Swing to have a way forward... ADO just came out, we need to rewrite to use that... dotNET is here, it's better to go to that now than continue investing in a language that will be phased out...) Even complete plonkers have been able to get away with that in recent times. No wonder IT has such a bad name and senior corporate managers are starting to say that IT is a cost not an investment.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
