Too bad you don't live in Norway, we are hiring ;)
There is clear proof that Notes (client) based development is dying, and also sales of new Domino/Notes installations are down (almost) to nothing. If you look at what IBM are doing with Lotus Connections and other "web 2.0" technologies, the market is actually on the rise, of course talking about Norway, I do realize it's quite different from UK.
Currently we are doing heavy domino development on our own applications, but we usually don't sell Domino, we sell (web) solutions, and usually hosted. If we weren't already an IBM partner, and had heavy knowledge of Domino, we would most likelly have chosen a different platform, but as it is, it makes most sense to do what we do.
Having myself worked with different technologies during my career, including Asp.Net, I have taken the approach that whatever pays the bills (and is somewhat fun to work with) goes, it never pays off being a platform "die hard".
Btw, to those who says "xpages is the future", they are right about the fact that it is the future of Domino development, but the learning curve is brutal, it's doing a lot of "black magic" behind the scenes, and you still end up doing your own design "kludges", just as you did with "classic" web development.
Too bad you don't live in Norway, we are hiring ;)
There is clear proof that Notes (client) based development is dying, and also sales of new Domino/Notes installations are down (almost) to nothing. If you look at what IBM are doing with Lotus Connections and other "web 2.0" technologies, the market is actually on the rise, of course talking about Norway, I do realize it's quite different from UK.
Currently we are doing heavy domino development on our own applications, but we usually don't sell Domino, we sell (web) solutions, and usually hosted. If we weren't already an IBM partner, and had heavy knowledge of Domino, we would most likelly have chosen a different platform, but as it is, it makes most sense to do what we do.
Having myself worked with different technologies during my career, including Asp.Net, I have taken the approach that whatever pays the bills (and is somewhat fun to work with) goes, it never pays off being a platform "die hard".
Btw, to those who says "xpages is the future", they are right about the fact that it is the future of Domino development, but the learning curve is brutal, it's doing a lot of "black magic" behind the scenes, and you still end up doing your own design "kludges", just as you did with "classic" web development.