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Re:IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Mi... by Traubenfuchs on Thursday March 28, 2019 @07:50AM (#19511242)
That's even worse then: You are honing obsolete skills and will have a hard time finding a new job if you want or have to.

So you are an expert in Java service oriented architecture? Sorry, but we are now looking for developers with Spring Boot 2.x Microservice experience.

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Re:IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Mi... by k_sze on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:14AM (#19511837)
Well, software folklore seems to say that COBOL graybeards get paid A LOT.
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Re:IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Mi... by Traubenfuchs on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:30AM (#19511962)
Does this hold for everything? Do we have any other examples besides the fabled COBOL developer?

Are application server / Java XML SOA graybeards also paid a lot?

My current technological focus are Spring Boot applications, seasoned with everything that comes with that: SQL, devops basics, etc. If Spring Boot is still a thing in 10 - 20 years I'd be extremely surprised.

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