| Tip 9 | Don’t Put All Your Eggs in Someone Else’s Basket |
While managing an application development group, I once asked one of my employees, “What do you want to do with your career? What do you want to be?” I was terribly disappointed by his answer: “I want to be a J2EE architect.” I asked why not a “Microsoft Word designer” or a “RealPlayer installer?”
This guy wanted to build his career around a specific technology created by a specific company of which he was not an employee. What if the company goes out of business? What if it let its now-sexy technology become obsolete? Why would you want to trust a technology company with your career?
Somehow, as an industry, we fool ourselves into thinking market leader is the same thing as standard ...
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