po threw this into the water:
[snip]
** troll.

Would have been one star, but I gave one more for "older developers."

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frosty

On Jun 6, 12:19*am, "frosty" <fros... (AT) bogus (DOT) tld> wrote:
troll? you must be joking.
all I can say is that there are many jobs for .Net but pretty much
none for pick

On Jun 8, 1:06*am, po <peterot... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
There are quite a few for Pick, if you know where to look. If you
want some links for jobs, let me know. There are many more jobs for
SQL but also many, many more people seeking them.

Paddy wrote:
I think his point is unfortunately made more effectively with the
above response.

About 20 years ago, you could look in the newspaper and see a Pick job
once in a while. These days that's rare - if for no other reason than
most people don't read newspapers anymore.

There are placement firms specializing in various maintstream
technologies but we can count on one hand how many there are for Pick,
and probably on one finger how many are effective.

Given the poor market, I think the DBMS providers should have picked
up the gauntlet to help foster their market in this manner. Most of
them have not realized the requirement. Of the few MV DBMS companies
that attempt to help broker employment relationships, most have done a
dismal job of it.

I've updated the PickWiki Employment page with links to DBMS vendors
that have employment pages (additions welcome):
http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Employment

Let's pick our fights carefully. Most of us here will agree that Pick
is the superior technology, with many solutions to problems that the
SQL world is always trying to fix. But when someone trolls with notes
about a tiny market with few employment opportunities, I think it's
best to humbly agree and simply move on to another discussion.

I'd prefer discussions about what we can do to fix the market but in
my experience most people really aren't interested. That's just
another confirmation of the problem.

T

po stopped filming TellyTubbies long enough to exclaim:
No, if I was joking, I'd say something like,
"Michael Jackson and Saddam Hussein walk
into a bar..."

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frosty

Sorry - came in late to this - but this is an easy one. I have never
really used accuterm massivly - I always much preferred wintegrate.
However as i say the answer is easy - definitely .NET every time.