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rsk_beckon

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Dear All

I am sasikumar. I have 6+ yrs of experience in vb6.0. I just started to learn .Net. But one of my friend suggest me to learn Progress as it got an opportunity,so I decided to learn progress, but it is advisable to change my career to progress development.if yes, then how to start with?If i spent 4-5 hrs a day to learn
progress what duration it will take to complete and thru my interview.How the programm syntax resemble. what is the industry standard.What is the best book available?.What is the best site to learn progress.? any interview questions site link available?How is the oppportunity for this lang?Whether the medium size company will recruite the progress people?

Please help me in this regard since I am novice for the progress lang.

Thanks in Advance
Sasikumar
 
depends where you are in UK i dont know that many places that use progress and i've found it to be more of a niche market and in terms of help stuff progress is no way near as good as msdn or the tons of books you can get with vb c# c++ etc but might be different say in the us
 
The market is much smaller, but as a consequence it often pays better because people are hard to recruit.
 
Completely Agreed with Greg... :lol:

People use to move away from Progress. looking to change there technology & you are moving into??
Beware of such friends....
 
There are pros & cons either way.

If you go the SQL & popular development language route there will be many jobs, lots of support resources and everyone will be at least somewhat familiar with the technologies that you are using. But you will be a commodity and be in competition with 5 billion other people that have the same skills. And as soon as The Next Big Thing comes out you will need to get right on top of it because 5 billion other people are racing to be the first to know and use that new technology and you can be pretty sure that your next project will want to use that new bright and shiny thing.

If you go down the Progress path you're in a niche. Furthermore you will likely end up specializing in a particular partner application (like QAD or Epicor or one of the Infor products). Support resources are much harder to find and everyone you meet at cocktail parties will say "Progress who?". The Next Big Thing will happen less often and it probably won't be leveraged by your customer(s) for a long time. But, if you are good, it is much easier to become a big fish in a small pond and thus obtain a premium for your services. If you are not so good it is also much more likely that word will get around to all of your prospectiive employers...

If one of these views sounds better to you than the other you have your answer regarding what you should do.
 
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