I went to the XPages bootcamp in Denmark in December, and I think it's a very impressive technology. It makes web-development a lot easier, that's for sure. You can build most of your UI in XML (based on JFaces) which is in my opinion a lot better than traditional Domino development.
However, I think IBM is a bit too late to the party. IBM is doing with XPages what the Java and .NET world have been doing for years. They are playing catch-up in a world that has changed a lot in the last few years...
In my country there is almost no demand for Domino developers anymore, while the demand for Java/.NET/PHP is still booming.
I went to the XPages bootcamp in Denmark in December, and I think it's a very impressive technology. It makes web-development a lot easier, that's for sure. You can build most of your UI in XML (based on JFaces) which is in my opinion a lot better than traditional Domino development.
However, I think IBM is a bit too late to the party. IBM is doing with XPages what the Java and .NET world have been doing for years. They are playing catch-up in a world that has changed a lot in the last few years...
In my country there is almost no demand for Domino developers anymore, while the demand for Java/.NET/PHP is still booming.