CodeGear is in Web 2.0

press release of CodeGear. about the release of Ruby IDE 3rd Rail. Here's what's interesting - the main product releases CodeGear - JBuilder, Delphi, C Builder, InterBase, and a new version of an integrated product RAD Studio ignored completely - there is no trace, but about the 3rd Rail, and Delphi for PHP publish. That is millions of products with real deployments ( and hundreds of thousands in Russia), which made ​​thousands of working systems, for some reason ignored, and the fashionable, though promising, are published. Actually, this style of tabloid newspapers - writing exclusively about ostromodnom and ignore Serious News.

Update - wrote comments, came the continuation of the post:.

A need ' a new and strong taste? ' . Skills healthy conservatism completely absent from the population okoloitshnogo. Of those who write ( write it Well you do not carry bags, much less code to debug ) Wikipedia about the ' new approach ', but actually develops applications that are running.
I, frankly, was upset by the recent announcement by Microsoft that they, too, are arranged in a service-oriented architecture. The last stronghold, which steadfastly ignored gnusenie marketers ( its missing ), and he gave.
Why the IT continually seek to make a brothel (as the highest expression SOA)? .
Some kind of madness is going on. All that I know are big and real business applications running on the technologies developed by a maximum of 5, and often 10 or even 20 years ago - SQL- base, thick client, perhaps the classic servlets and JSP, well, another report generator. It worked, worked and will work. This is a real -life IT. Rather than deal with issues of quality and training of developers and IT professionals, IT community is engaged in the invention of new terms and a discussion of marketing competition.
web 2. 0 - Emergency inflated profanity, which is relevant to the communities to the Internet ( FaceBook, YouTube, blogs ), but very little to the business and create competitive advantage in business. This drainpipe pants, mini skirts, SLOT 1, Hyperthreading, and the rest megamodnye hits that disappeared, or have taken the adequately small place ( thank God, bbw in miniskirts no longer walk, and hyperthreading is not shoved in each hole).
SOA - all the time inflated hype, in fact, lying back in business process reengineering (ay, IDEF, DFD and SSADT), and related to the fact that now, together with products not cheap seiza need to push more and nedeshvye services.
A question-and- then in another - it needs to be done, and depends on the quality of execution of this business from the people, not the trendy catchwords.
You see what is needed in the labor market - a basic knowledge of SQL (. Well, ka, a query with GROUP BY and HAVING clauses do! . ), A basic knowledge of OOP (. polymorphism? . yes? . ) And normal language skills, whether it's Delphi, Java, C. And where specialists with such knowledge? . And it is not paid for, as has already been sold, and the need to sell a new, more expensive abbreviation.

And I tell you what - nothing new birth in the last 10 years. Yes, it evolved, yes, a lot of the web (including dot-com ). And the approach that if you really want to make a working application in time - it is the same remain.
Yes, many programmers have moved from the level of coding the level of leadership and try to have a metapravila ' how to successfully complete the project, and in time ' and ' how do we organize work with users and management '. A rule is just one thing - work to do, and not tryndet.

Instead, young people ( and not only ) consumes a blizzard of web -two- zero and trying to learn what some ' proper ' perspective and of course the undead.

A must read Graber, Date, and a little Knut Spolsky. And, of course, work to solve praktticheskie zadachm rather than read the marketing stuff.

update 2.

Well, one must understand the labor available to the ' half-dead ' products, which make for release in two years, found an anonymous miracle did not deign. Well, we are accustomed to it, dolphins might offend everyone:) probably a php writes a fashion all.

update 3.

heh, I'm not a reactionary, just do not like the sound of nothing, and especially people making noise. Even if it is their job.