IT Jobs To Drop In 2009

ruphus13 writes "A new Goldman Sachs IT report recently released states that IT jobs will be dramatically reduced in 2009, starting with contract and offshore developers. From the article: 'Sharp reductions likely in contract staff, professional services and hardware, and almost no investment in cloud computing.' The article goes on to say 'The CIOs indicated that server virtualization and server consolidation are their No. 1 and No. 2 priorities. Following these two are cost-cutting, application integration, and data center consolidation. At the bottom of the list of IT priorities are grid computing, open-source software, content management and cloud computing (called on-demand/utility computing in the survey) — less than 2% of the respondents said cloud computing was a priority.' Postulating a 'pointy haired boss' problem, an analyst goes on to say, '[Grid computing, Open Source and Cloud computing] require a technical understanding to get to their importance. I don't think C-level executives and managers have that understanding.' But they do control the paychecks ..."

Comments

Re:Truck driving school here I come!

[slashtivus]

I worked for a while in Logistics shipping stuff from a fulfillment warehouse all over the country, setting up full truck routes with the proper drops, etc. We looked into rail. The delivery times and routing is really quite terrible compared to trucking (especially with team divers), not to mention you end up having to cross-load it back onto a truck at the other end which adds yet more possibility for mistakes and damage, as well as pretty much eating up most of any gain in shipping costs. Rail is great for bulk goods, but not so good for getting stuff to the local Walmart / Best Buy, etc.

Re:Regarding the Iraq comments;

[Surt]

I'm sorry, but regardless of the long term outcome of Iraq, we aren't helped oil wise since we just allowed them to rejoin the OPEC cartel. Anyone who believes that Iraq was a 'war for oil' is foolish. Whatever the stupidity behind Iraq, that wasn't it, or it was the absolute worst possible execution of a war for oil possible.