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 ..."

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Grid computing, open source and cloud computing

[bugs2squash]

Don't have the backing of microsoft telling the C series execs what to think.

They should rename themselves Masonsoft.

Cloud computing does NOT take techs to understand

[The-Trav-Man]

Quite the opposite, cloud computing takes marketing savvy and buzzword compliance to understand.

It's re-branded SOA, end of story

Re:Duh.

[story645]

Managers suck ('cept for a select handful the op likes and the op himself) and are therefore responsible for everything that's wrong with the company/tech industry/humanity.

I wonder why the OP lends any credence to having a degree in the field. Going into my fourth year in computer engineering, I've learned it's usually not worth the paper it's printed on.