Is the IT Department Dead?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 7, 2008 @03:59AM from the that-explains-the-smell-in-there dept.

alphadogg writes "The IT department is dead, and it is a shift to utility computing that will kill this corporate career path. So predicts Nicholas Carr in his new book launched Monday, "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google." Carr is best known for a provocative Harvard Business Review article entitled "Does IT Matter?" Published in 2003, the article asserted that IT investments didn't provide companies with strategic advantages because when one company adopted a new technology, its competitors did the same."

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Re:Respect. by h4rr4r · 2008-01-07 04:15 · Score: 1, Flamebait

All you are saying is that helpdesk folks are replaceable by 10.00/hr kids, and guess what? They are.

Linux/Unix Sysadmins do not have this problem. We get plenty of respect and are treated as skilled white collar workers like accountants and the like. Windows admins are probably the same way.

All that has changed is that PHBs are realizing that helpdesk is replaceable by high school kids and dropouts. IT like every other field has levels, both a CNAs and a neurosurgeons are medical professionals, but one is a lot more respected then the other.