PC Quest 20091201 Scan03 Hot Jobs 2010

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Even though the recovery from the economic downturn is still debatable, the outlook seems positive with more and more enterprises interested in deploying IT for streamlining their processes. Professionals who understand industry dynamics and who can see the big picture would find more takers.

J2EE and .NET are evergreen because they use an intermediate layer (JVM and CLR respectively) that keeps getting optimized for new hardware without the software having to be rewritten. Umesh Wason has rightly pointed out the need for greater technical experience, GUI development skills and for development of hand-held device apps.

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Till now, human beings had to tell machines what to do, which the machines then did faithfully and rapidly. But this model is getting stretched to the limit by the Internet, which is generating too much data for humans to track on their own. Web 3.0 is the name given to the so-called Semantic Web where machines are able to make sense of data because it is enclosed in special tags. This is the reason Web 3.0 is centered around APIs and web services.

It is not a magical wand that would solve all our problems. Rather it is the beginning of a more intense machine processing of information than has been carried out till now. The overall aim is to bring the information overload we are all suffering from down to something our brains can handle.