{chortle} Well, since I subscribed from almost the first --
and watched IW deteriorate / Sell Out / echoing and intensifying the decline into the present morass, I tend to blame those Corp/IDG bastards particularly, for their huge contribution to the negative synergy.
Had IW retained it's original POV, Billy n'Bally might have had a much harder time milking the sheep - and killing off all those stolen or purchased Ideas rotting forever in their lair.
Now IW's just the typical pointless rag, as all here know. But they coulda been a contender! IT is truly a shitty moribund 'industry', just at the period where it should be engaging in clever experimentation. Bizness kills thought, always just to try for 90-day cheap 'gains'. It has no soul, and that must take its toll on the talented Ones.
And as for De Sitter's little pique - that if'n you ain't sellin-Everything for max-$$, it ain't worth doing?
Pshaw,
Ashton who hates seeing the talent around here producing such tawdry End Product {ugh} dbases for More &#$# Cold Calls.
The problem is that IT is boring now, and apparently not worth very much...
[link|http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20030127/bs_nf/20580|Business Integration Spending to Surpass IT]
Companies want to focus on "business integration", and "making it all work together". That's the cool, sexy stuff. Redesigning processes. Linking systems.
Forget about the poor schlops who trudge around day to day running fixpaks on mundane things like SQL Server. Those fixpaks just don't matter do they?
Might as well hire a $6 an hour flunkie or H1B to do them, right?
So, think in terms of learning Mercator, BEA, TIBCO, WebSphere, MQSeries, etc. That's where the jobs are... Until enough SQL Servers crash and burn that business leaders decide that IT is "important" again...
Re: And That isn't even sarcasm!___:( Ignorance is Hard --
At least they are consistent...
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