You are absolutely right. If you do even a cursory search for IT abuse/lack of respect, what sane person would want to enter this field? Even CIO magazine has numerous articles on getting buy-in/respect/etc from other peers. Hell, if an executive has to fight to earn respect at the top, what can a line manager or grunt expect. IT itself is a crazy field - while you can earn a decent living, putting up with the constant changes, lack of true respect from business peers, and too many that use technology but don't even have a basic understanding of it is a maddening career choice. Or, maybe I'm just crazy and burnt out after 15 years in the field
There is still plenty of need for larger iron - However it is waning, as IA32&64 systems get larger (8+way, 64+ GB RAM) and they get better I/O. This is an area where x86 servers have typically lagged. I work with many large databases (750GB+, up to 10TB) and the I/O backplane on IBM/HP/SUN servers still beat anything by Dell and HP's x86. To those that say they run large databases on a IA-32 box is laughable.
Well, they won't be open-sourcing it, but IBM is porting the Rational tools to the Eclipse framework. Same with their Lotus/Domino apps - they are being ported to Java to run within WebSphere.
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You are absolutely right. If you do even a cursory search for IT abuse/lack of respect, what sane person would want to enter this field? Even CIO magazine has numerous articles on getting buy-in/respect/etc from other peers. Hell, if an executive has to fight to earn respect at the top, what can a line manager or grunt expect. IT itself is a crazy field - while you can earn a decent living, putting up with the constant changes, lack of true respect from business peers, and too many that use technology but don't even have a basic understanding of it is a maddening career choice. Or, maybe I'm just crazy and burnt out after 15 years in the field
There is still plenty of need for larger iron - However it is waning, as IA32&64 systems get larger (8+way, 64+ GB RAM) and they get better I/O. This is an area where x86 servers have typically lagged. I work with many large databases (750GB+, up to 10TB) and the I/O backplane on IBM/HP/SUN servers still beat anything by Dell and HP's x86. To those that say they run large databases on a IA-32 box is laughable.
Well, they won't be open-sourcing it, but IBM is porting the Rational tools to the Eclipse framework. Same with their Lotus/Domino apps - they are being ported to Java to run within WebSphere.