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Story: Microsoft admits .Net skills shortage

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Idiotic advise that would only make sense if you happen to have a bunch of Java or VB programmers sitting around eating out of their noses the whole day.

What they're really saying is that decision makers that are out of touch with reality that still don't want to face the music to please drop what they're doing and save their asses.

Decision makers that are into their neck into .Net and faced with a skill shortage are well advised to re-evaluate their information sources, find their own answers and stop listening to bad advise.
Most likely you'll want to opt to keep the current flows flowing smoothly and slowly take time to fill the skill shortage gap (it is better to have more then one skill afterall) in your own time frame and budget. Because it is better to take longer and come out well prepared then to dive in head first and duke out the learning curve problems with your paying customers. Because the latter would suck up most of your resources in non rewarding ways sooner or later and then you'll find yourself sinking down slowly but surely to be booted out once the well prepared guy comes along.

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