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When I read RD's message, I confess I had no idea what "21 CFR Part 11" is. Now I confess I don't care about it. Maybe I will miss the big "Title 21 Code of Federal Regulations Electronic Records/Electronic Signatures" movement underway. If I do, I will manage somehow.
For tech trends in the coming year, I look to:
- Increased commoditization of server and desktop applications.
- More and more emphasis on business process and data integration (driven in part by maturing XML standards, but not at all limited by that).
- Security will probably continue to be hot.
- Richer (in content and data visualisation) internet application/solutions/devtools.
- (maybe) Return to the fat-client or client-server application structure.
I don't think you can make a career of following these. What you can make a career of is being in the business of learning. By learning one complex system or programming language, you can learn others. If you learned SmallTalk 15 years ago, you would still be in good shape to pick up Java.
Matthew J. Horn
Sr. Technical Writer
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