America has a choice. Bring in foreign labor that sometimes is much better and sometimes much worse than American labor over here legally or outsource their functions and loose all the benefits in the process.
IT is such a broad range of professions that it's not really hard to change within IT. For example I worked in Sys admin roles for a number of years and than went into direct client work side work. The direct client work brings international travel, 120+ hour work weeks, insane requirements dropped on your plate at a moments notice and I guarantee that nothing is ever consistent except the product the company you work for produces. You meet many very nice people and sometimes you get to see the world.
Good point. I think M$ knows they have lost a large chuck of the server market. Only by doing insane things like horse shoeing software inoperability in will they keep the server market tied up. The deskop is really the big holy grail of money. At $300.00 a copy for M$ office and $100 a desktop for Windows they really can afford to do just about anything to protect these markets.
The deal with Novell & Xandros may also be about protecting about their technology. Maybe they volate patents in OSS software as well.
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America has a choice. Bring in foreign labor that sometimes is much better and sometimes much worse than American labor over here legally or outsource their functions and loose all the benefits in the process.
IT is such a broad range of professions that it's not really hard to change within IT. For example I worked in Sys admin roles for a number of years and than went into direct client work side work. The direct client work brings international travel, 120+ hour work weeks, insane requirements dropped on your plate at a moments notice and I guarantee that nothing is ever consistent except the product the company you work for produces. You meet many very nice people and sometimes you get to see the world.
Good point. I think M$ knows they have lost a large chuck of the server market. Only by doing insane things like horse shoeing software inoperability in will they keep the server market tied up. The deskop is really the big holy grail of money. At $300.00 a copy for M$ office and $100 a desktop for Windows they really can afford to do just about anything to protect these markets. The deal with Novell & Xandros may also be about protecting about their technology. Maybe they volate patents in OSS software as well.