A respected friend of mine identified current opportunities @IT sector as follows:
* Cloud infrastructure management as mentioned http://blog.xebia.com/2010/03/09/developing-and-deploying-java-on-middleware-and-in-the-cloud-rise-of-the-virtual-appliance/
* Mobile client interface and model driven development like http://www.ipfaces.org/
* Vertical frameworks as executed by http://pega.com/
* Big data and extracting value! http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/16/big-data-freedom/
Now we can chat whenever i am online with my favourite IM. Time to communicate...
On other news, i am leaving my current company August 1. I have accepted a challenging position within a big player in telecommunications sector. Lots of restructuring and refactoring projects awaits me. Lots of room for improvements... Wish me luck :)
Virtualization, linux appliances are hot. Article says, Redhat is positioned better for SOA after JBOSS acquisition?
Amazon Web services divison is making interesting product releases.
After Amazon S3(Simple Storage Service), Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service)
the company released Amazon EC2.
Basically it is a virtual server hosted for you in the amazon cloud. You pay for the instance hours and bandwidth that you actually consume. Integrating with SQS and S3 it provides an compelling alternative to managing your own petty infrastructure.
Winning the mindshare of developers should be the next logical step. I want my free developer account and some nice tutorials to get me started with in Java or some decent scripting language.
