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IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth
buzzardsbay writes "For the past few years, we've heard a number of analysts and high-profile IT industry executives, Bill Gates and Craig Barrett among them, promoting the idea that there's an ever-present shortage of skilled IT workers to fill the industry's demand. But now there's growing evidence suggesting the "shortage" is simply a self-serving myth. "It seems like every three years you've got one group or another saying, the world is going to come to an end there is going to be a shortage and so on," says Vivek Wadhwa, a professor for Duke University's Master of Engineering Management Program and a former technology CEO himself. "This whole concept of shortages is bogus, it shows a lack of understanding of the labor pool in the USA.""
Ageing technologies like Unix and mainframe are on the way out of what you need to know these days.
Yeah, these days, it's all Linux.
the Unix side can't provide the kinds of availability numbers we can and the upper-ups are getting tired of hearing the financial systems aren't available so often.
IMO, this is more a function of the ability of your admins and the fact that you're using Oracle Apps.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"