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Study: IT jobs will drop in 2009
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| One reason for the low priorities of grid computing, open-source software and
| cloud computing may be that CIOs and business executives don't understand
| their value. "They require a technical understanding to get to their
| importance. I don't think C-level executives and managers have that
| understanding," King said.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9110329
http://tinyurl.com/5lsm4q
Up or Out: Where Are IT Jobs Headed?
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| We often hear, "all roads lead to management." While that certainly isn't
| true for everyone, it becomes a stark reality when a long-time techie decides
| to move up the corporate ladder. Businesses are also less dependent on some
| IT services, and to remain competitive or even employable, employees need to
| become more business-aware. As a result, it is increasingly more common to
| see hard-core techies venturing out to acquire an MBA. They aren't jumping
| the IT ship; in fact, they're becoming more competitive in the IT world.
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http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/article.php/3759761
Recent:
Top Ten Worst Uses for Windows
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| 1. To display a static green arrow over the open TSA security lanes at
| Detroit Metro.
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| I kid you not, at the main security checkpoint to get into Detroit Metro
| there are monitors over each metal detector. The ONLY thing those monitors
| ever display is a big green arrow pointing down. Oh, occasionally they
| display a blue screen with a Windows error notice.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29644
Ten More Stupid Uses for Windows
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| My Top Ten Worst Uses for Windows post earlier this week caused somewhat of a
| firestorm of reaction. It is worth pointing out that for the most part I am
| not really criticizing Windows just the use of a bloated OS for simple or
| mission critical tasks.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29836
Related:
Why many MCSEs won’t learn Linux
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| What he’s doing here is striking out as a way of expressing the frustration
| he feels at being unable to understand what we’re all talking about - and
| while that’s fully understandable because he’s the victim of a social
| community confusing training with education, I think it’s also completely
| illustrative of the great divide blocking widespread Linux acceptance within
| the MCSE community.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1137
An idea about teaching Linux to the MCSE community
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| Mine is quite primitive - a collection of files requiring some manual
| intervention to verify when first used - but it’s easy to see how the
| Configure/Make combination could be used to build everything from .bashrc
| files to gnome configurations. Equally, it wouldn’t be a big deal for the
| people putting out new releases to provide customized versions of the
| files -thereby creating a kind of standardized high level interface layer
| aimed at helping MCSEs overcome their fear of Linux variability.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1138
Open Source found to be source of all happiness
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| A REPORT by New York consulting company, Bluewolf, reckons that IT salaries
| are going to rise even higher in 2008, with open source application
| developers leading the pack with an average 7.6 percent salary growth. This
| corresponds to a salary increase from the previous average of $80,250 to
| about $112,500 a year for the lucky open saucers.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/11/open-source-found-source
Advice for the MCSE: go back to school
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| Number one on that list is a simple reality: everything changes, and by
| betting against industry wide change you’re leaving yourself, your family,
| and even your community hostage to Microsoft’s continuing commercial success.
|
| [...]
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| Not many people like Microsoft - and there are better alternatives: Linux on
| the server side, MacOS X on the user side.
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| Is it going to happen tomorrow? Probably not, but it will - and when it does
| a lot of today’s MCSEs will be caught out: essentially unemployable in
| comparable professional roles without significant, unanticipated, and
| uprooting personal change.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1081
The meaning of Microsoft Server 2008
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| Server 2008 looks like a bit of an odd duck - it doesn’t meet the promises
| made for “Longhorn” and “Blackcombe”, it’s probably neither more reliable nor
| more efficient than its 64 bit 2003/XP based predecessors, and unlike Vista
| (with which it shares some code) the kernel changes amount to rather more
| than just another point release in the NT schedule.
|
| [...]
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| And that, I think, reflects Microsoft’s other strategic concern: that MacOS X
| and Linux bracket Microsoft’s market and are both reaching out to the people
| in the middle - the managers and MCSE decision makers who now consider Apple
| too consumer oriented and Linux too technical.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1082
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