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Hot Tech Skills For 2006?
linumax writes "Computerworld is running a 3 page story on what tech skills will be in demand for the coming year. They suggest developers, security experts and project managers are in demand. It also comes up with some good news. FTA: 'Despite the notion that hordes of U.S. IT jobs are being sent offshore, in reality, less than 5% of the 10 million people who make up the U.S. IT job market had been displaced by foreign workers through 2004, says Scot Melland, president and CEO of Dice Inc., a New York-based online jobs service. The numbers of jobs posted on Dice.com from January through September for developers, project managers and help desk technicians rose 40%, 47% and 45%, respectively, compared with the same period in 2004, says Melland.'"
Judging by the fact that their stock is 423 bucks right now, there are at least a few people out there who believe Google is doing something right.
This is off topic a bit, but the reason Google is selling for US$423 is because the Federal Reserve central bank printed a massive amount of new (I'd call it counterfeit) currency before and during the dotcom boom. This money went everywhere, and eventually it all fell apart. Easy money (low interest rate and newly printed) gives people lowered risk when investing, so the stock market soaked it all up -- high supply of money caused a high demand in a low supply of stocks, forcing the price up.
After the dotbomb, all that money had to go somewhere -- it didn't just disappear. Google was a profitable company showing promise, so the money was chased into Google, forcing the stock price up. You can thank Greenspan's idiotic currency inflation policies for Google's price and housing prices, not people having faith necessarily.