In 1983, IBM ruled the industry, from mainframes to PCs. COBOL was by far the dominant language for business applications. Ten years later, IBM was almost irrelevant and a few years after that, comics were making fun of COBOL programmers, calling them dinosaurs. Today, .NET is the largest business application platform, but just as PCs and networking turned the industry upside down in the 1980s, tablets, touch, and cloud are turning the industry upside down today. Will today’s .NET developers be dinosaurs in a few years? What can the farsighted developer do to avoid such a fate? Billy Hollis will give you his take on the shifting value in different aspects of development, and lay out a strategy that some of you might want to use to future-proof your career.