> > Keep in mind that next year the work you are doing now will be in the > past and they may want to toss it (and the people who did it) for the > next new thing. Let us know how that works out for everyone. My > experience has been that the companies that hang on to the past do so > because they have something worth keeping. > Or they don't want to spend money to update infrastructure or are locked into some proprietary dependency... Heck in a year if our needs change I'll no doubt run a project to replace what I did this year ;) Having worked in places that are afraid to touch that thing that has run forever and working where I am now I'll take the place that is flexible enough to trial new technologies over struggling to maintain something beyond EOL any day... James