Comments on: The incredible shrinking IT staff?

Gartner predicts that by 2010, the number of IT staff in the profession will fall by 15 percent.

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The Incredible Shrinking Value of Gartner?

That would be a better title for this story.

Gartner is really good at stating the obvous, but really bad at
predicting the future.

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They can't even decide what is true

Contradictory results from their multiple studies shows that Gartner doesn't have a clue.

The Incredible shrinking IT Staff

Its time we stopped "bashing" Gartner and faced up to some "real" issues.

Old guys like me who have been in the industry 35 years are more frustrated at the mindless commitment to offshore and Java.
I am sick and tired of having to explain simple systems design and intersystem reconciliation principles to our so called well trained outsource Java community.
I am also sick of hearing "exceptions happen".
In my programming days, you thought about exceptions and gracefully managed them through a sensible design to resolution.
"Throwing exceptions" to a log file is nothing short of disgraceful.
And when a 51 year old guy (a CIO) like me has to review Java code and show the so called Genius Technical Architect where code is wrong, I'm told, "Well its good you had a chance to review". What!!!
As for offshore, check the DR policy, check the Security, check the national grid and most of all check the comms.
If any of these do not stack up get the hell out of there.....

Wake up and smell the daisies guys this industry is going to pot and offshoring et al are taking us there.

Well spoken

I might not have the title or experience but I have to do that all the time to those network engineers when I am just a desktop/PC specialist.. Sadly, people mistaken me for an outsourced service guy when I am an Asian-American.. I work so hard to see why I am in a dying industry.. Reason why I have to spend more of my own money to go MBA now (which is not lucrative as it used to be in some reports)... But I definitely understand that because I am the scrubber for the managers and see it in my own head.. But they have the title...