Hi folks
Career management gurus, like Dan Pink, tell us that the left-brained Knowledge Worker is toast. Automation and Asia are going to take their jobs away. The future belongs to the whole-brained Creative.
I am receiving an unexpectedly lively response to a new application (the Yala) that I have posted on Snowcovered. This is making me wonder if I haven’t inadvertently struck a chord with a deeper sense of unease, and whether this has broader implications for DotNetNuke as a whole.
Automation? Well, if you are a traditional skin designer offering your fabulous new skin in twenty glorious colors, you might find the next generation of skins with their color pickers a little disconcerting – some of your value added has just been automated away. Likewise, if you are a module developer at the bleeding edge of .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, you might justifiably feel a little piqued by tools like Open Web Studio, which simplify the module-development process making it that bit more accessible to the non propeller-head. In addition, if you are a hosting vendor, whose unique skills lie in a mastery of the dark arts of making SQL and IIS play nicely together, you might well feel threatened by Microsoft Web Application Installer, which blows away some of the smoke and mirrors.
Asia? Well, if all you can offer is a high level of technical expertise then there are some frighteningly competent people in India and China very willing to do your job at a fraction of the price.
On the other hand, if you are a skin designer with flair, a module developer coming up with new applications not me-too solutions, a hosting provider with a talent for putting together super-efficient combinations of hardware and software, then you probably don’t have too much to worry about.
The implication for the DotNetNuke community and the DNN Corporation is that if DNN is merely another CMS, then its future is cloudy. On the other hand, if it is quite simply the friendliest eco-system for the Creative, then it has got its future made.
Discuss.