"Tell that to the thousands of high-quality IT people that were axed from the airline industry after 9/11. Some of the best technical people I've known over the past 18 years were cut in that timeframe, and some of them had a very hard time finding work, mainly they were located in a smaller market and had skills which were seen as only applying to one specific industry."
Don't get me wrong. I feel for anybody who loses his/her job. If they live in a small market than regretfully they will have to move (assuming they have skills desired by the current job market). I live in Colorado and worked for a company that had fallen on hard times and purchased/moved to Virginia. I took my chances and stayed in Colorado. Somehow I found plenty of work during the dotcom bust.
I am so sick of listening to all the whining about IT outsourcing to India. Those of you that have lost a job and have an adaquate skill set will move on and find other work in the US(this may mean you have to move). My current employer has a number of open positions that can not be filled due to the lack of qualified candidates (some entry level some expert). My anecdotal observation is that the majority of you who can not find equivalant work/pay were worthless to start with. This has been confirmed by a recent thread on Slashdot which discussed candidates that can not stand up to a real technical interview. If you work hard, are dependable, and competent within your IT discipline you will not be affected.
The move to India for some companies is not only dictated by cheaper labor. Many of the good jobs are moving due to the lack of EEs,CompSC,Chemical Engnrs, etc. in this country. Too many of us are going to college and getting degrees in basket weaving (I was one of them before I went back to school). Having gotten my CCIE I can not understand why the network administrators below me can not even complete and achieve the aptitude of a CCNA (even with all the resources at their disposal). Ultimatly, you need to be honest with yourself and put up or shut up. Get an aptitude, degree, or certification and throw your resume on dice/hotjobs/monster/... See how fast you get employed.
First a disclaimer... I do believe that Microsoft showed very little insight when including scripting capabilities in their Emails. To this day I don't know a single person who uses this capability (except for virus writers). I am not an apologist for Microsoft, just looking to put this vulnerability into perspective. Regarding the buffer overflow... Is Microsoft software really more insecure than other vendor's software? Could it be that publicity and scrutiny just makes it seem that way (I don't see a [CNN, Slashdot, MSNBC] article every time pine,sendmail,imapd,etc. has a buffer overflow vulnerability). How would Netscape and Eudora fair under the same amount of scrutiny? Do other software companies just enojoy "Security through Obscurity"?
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"Tell that to the thousands of high-quality IT people that were axed from the airline industry after 9/11. Some of the best technical people I've known over the past 18 years were cut in that timeframe, and some of them had a very hard time finding work, mainly they were located in a smaller market and had skills which were seen as only applying to one specific industry."
Don't get me wrong. I feel for anybody who loses his/her job. If they live in a small market than regretfully they will have to move (assuming they have skills desired by the current job market). I live in Colorado and worked for a company that had fallen on hard times and purchased/moved to Virginia. I took my chances and stayed in Colorado. Somehow I found plenty of work during the dotcom bust.
I am so sick of listening to all the whining about IT outsourcing to India. Those of you that have lost a job and have an adaquate skill set will move on and find other work in the US(this may mean you have to move). My current employer has a number of open positions that can not be filled due to the lack of qualified candidates (some entry level some expert). My anecdotal observation is that the majority of you who can not find equivalant work/pay were worthless to start with. This has been confirmed by a recent thread on Slashdot which discussed candidates that can not stand up to a real technical interview. If you work hard, are dependable, and competent within your IT discipline you will not be affected.
The move to India for some companies is not only dictated by cheaper labor. Many of the good jobs are moving due to the lack of EEs,CompSC,Chemical Engnrs, etc. in this country. Too many of us are going to college and getting degrees in basket weaving (I was one of them before I went back to school). Having gotten my CCIE I can not understand why the network administrators below me can not even complete and achieve the aptitude of a CCNA (even with all the resources at their disposal). Ultimatly, you need to be honest with yourself and put up or shut up. Get an aptitude, degree, or certification and throw your resume on dice/hotjobs/monster/... See how fast you get employed.
First a disclaimer... I do believe that Microsoft showed very little insight when including scripting capabilities in their Emails. To this day I don't know a single person who uses this capability (except for virus writers). I am not an apologist for Microsoft, just looking to put this vulnerability into perspective. Regarding the buffer overflow... Is Microsoft software really more insecure than other vendor's software? Could it be that publicity and scrutiny just makes it seem that way (I don't see a [CNN, Slashdot, MSNBC] article every time pine,sendmail,imapd,etc. has a buffer overflow vulnerability). How would Netscape and Eudora fair under the same amount of scrutiny? Do other software companies just enojoy "Security through Obscurity"?