Which of these skills are in demand?

**thom234** · 21 February 2005, 16:59

SAP? D'you mean SOAP? Or ASP? Or something else? Too many acronyms!

**SandyDown** · 21 February 2005, 17:00

gaaaawd... google it ..SAP

**SandyDown** · 21 February 2005, 17:47

SAP ...HTH

**thom234** · 21 February 2005, 18:17

blimey!!!!! (thought I'd try over-reacting too!)

never heard of SAP so can't be that much in demand. Plus, reading the words Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing make me feel sleepy.

zzzzzzzzzzz

**BlasterBates** · 21 February 2005, 18:35

I would learn .NET, and extend your XML skills while you're at it. I'm not sure but I think SOAP (the non-perfumed variety), uses XML.

So focus on .NET and once your familiar start to learn SOAP and the other XML "gubbins".

**SandyDown** · 21 February 2005, 18:37

mate have you been living in a cave ??? SAP is the most wanted skill at the moment.. ...
but thanks for the laugh (not heard of SAP .... you shouldn't be in IT)

**thom234** · 22 February 2005, 00:02

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As I said, I "am a Web Editor by trade", not a developer. Don't need to know about SAP and have been kept in regular employment for 4 years by some very well-known big companies without having heard of it.

Do you understand how to write grammatically? How to write persuasive copy? How to write for search engine optimisation? In case you hadn't noticed, IT goes a little further than just the development side of things these days. You might be surprised to learn that you don't know everything that goes into making a website. Might be time for you to learn though. As a Web Editor, my main duty is writing web copy - something that's unlikely to be outsourced overseas, so I'm pretty confident I'll be in IT for a while to come actually...

**HankWangford** · 22 February 2005, 10:12

Ooo

Very defensive about your skills thom234....I am guessing you'd love a bit of the £400+ per day us dev's get

**malvolio** · 22 February 2005, 10:50

You need to get out more, Thom

SAP has been around about 20 years, is probably the biggest MRP appliation out there and is pretty well the industry standard that the other MRP people have to match (which they are, these days)

And going back to the top - if you're not bringing program developement structure to your web designing, you're probably not doing it right IMHO - it's not about languages, it's about design and logic.Any damn fool can learn a language with a fixed syntax and 30 verbs, it's how you use it that's the tricky bit.

Which of these skills are in demand?