Similarly, Web site building won't always require expert support. It's already easy enough to set up a basic site, and Filemaker Pro sets the standard for creating a database-enabled Web site. Turnkey commerce systems will come next. Companies that today spend millions to teach Web skills to their staff will find that new hires come equipped with most of the skills needed. Those skills could translate directly into a programming job in a wide variety of settings.
Internet standards tend to create common skill sets that translate well across industries.
Today, a company enamored with fancy multimedia formats can spend precious IT or multimedia developer skills to implement in one format, only to watch a new format evolve six months later. This sort of waste will diminish as winning formats come to the fore. By moving to middleware and to database-driven site management, Web publishers may realize enormous efficiencies. XML may play an important role as well. Corba, ActiveX, and other component architectures have been touted as solutions to the problem of constant reinvention of code.