ChadFowler.com XML and J2EE: Commodity Skills
Very interesting post of Chad Fowler.
In which technology I should Invest my time?
Usually I invest my time in the technologies that I like more, I did that in the past for Java, then Java Micro Edition, at the moment I have a strong interest for what’s going on around Ruby. I don’t care so much about money. But it’s interesting to see that looks like it’s trendy now to go for Ruby 
If you search for J2EE* with Google Trends you will see that India is the Country number one searching for that.
If you search for Ruby on Rails you will find a lot of searches from USA & Canda.
The offshore market has injected its low-cost programmers into a relatively narrow set of technologies. Java and .NET programmers are a dime a dozen in India. India has a lot of Oracle DBAs as well. Less mainstream technologies are very much underrepresented by the offshore development shops. When choosing a technology set to focus your career on, you should understand the effects of increased supply and lower prices on your career prospects.
As a .NET programmer, you may find yourself competing with tens of thousands of more people in the job market than you would if you were, for example, a Python programmer. This would result in the average cost of a .NET programmer decreasing significantly, possibly driving demand higher (i.e., creating more .NET jobs). So, you’d be likely to find jobs available, but the jobs wouldn’t pay all that well. The supply of Python programmers might be much smaller than that of .NET programmers with a demand to match.
(*)I hate J2EE and XML, but this is another, old, story.
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