| The Job |
[Jan. 20th, 2005|11:05 pm] |
I was chatting with my PM today. We were both bemoaning the state of the company in terms of the direction IT has taken. Primarily, we both bitched about how the company has swallowed the Java/C# kool-aid hook, line and sinker, not to mention the MS worship.
She's actually a Smalltalk programmer now trapped in a Java programmer's body. I'm a Ruby guy who's stuck doing mostly Oracle stuff these days. She's a bit more pragmatic than I am, claiming that much of the reason the company wants Java is not the time or cost to develop, but the time and cost to *maintain*. And since much of our maintenance is offshore, and since the most popular language supported by the offshore folks is Java, the company wants to use Java.
My counter-argument to this is that maintenance would be easier with an Agile language, by virtue of the fact that it's often much shorter (yes, LOC *does* matter), doesn't require a recompile and (probably) requires little or no configuration management. She agreed to a point, but I think she's more or less of the opinion that I should just accept it or move on. :-P
My other career choice would be Solaris sysadmin. Unfortunately, we outsourced our sysadmin stuff to a big blue company, so that career track is out. That leaves Oracle or SCM as the alternatives - ick.
Time to scour Monster. :) |
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