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10% unemployment but H1B visas accelerating
- Thread starter noob_trad3r
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The cloud is the future. It will reduce costs, carbon footprints, etc.
At the expense of vendor tie-in. Its almost like we've gone full circle, from, in the old days, having to buy everything from IBM, to open systems, and now, back to, having to buy everything from the same vendor. How many businesses are willing to tolerate having everything off-site, and locked into proprietary systems that aren't even operated by their own staff? Entire businesses would be held hostage that way to their IT vendors, and have very little control over whether the data is being sold to their competitors, or worse, being sold to foreign governments.
Conceptually, outsourced computing sounds like a good idea, but in reality, it falls flat on its face. And suggestions that 'clouds' are magically easier to program, like 'point and click', are just ludicrous and show a complete lack of understanding of the underlying technology.
This is the start of the end of Microsoft, commercial real estate, and eventually most programmers and IT staff.
A complete exxageration, and anyone who spreads or even believes such nonsense has absolutely no business either working in IT, or making IT decisions.
Yes, why java and C# when c/c++ already doing the same for so long?
Faster, Easier, Cheaper.
Looking forward is what matters.
Automation killed the autoworker in Detroit. The industryâs demand for unskilled labor would first cease to grow, then diminish, then disappear.
It will happen with the Information age as well.
Faster, Easier, Cheaper.
Looking forward is what matters.
Automation killed the autoworker in Detroit. The industryâs demand for unskilled labor would first cease to grow, then diminish, then disappear.
It will happen with the Information age as well.
It will happen with the Information age as well.
And you really think that a business will be able to achieve a proprietary advantage by outsourcing or contracting everything out? Lol. That'd be like a major pension fund outsourcing its investment management to an external investment management firm, and then being absolutely astonished at learning that such investment management firm was front-running them.
I'm in the camp of believing that in-house IT is going to come back with a vengeance in the next 5-10 years as firms become sick and tired of dealing with outsourcers (and all the contract management, supervision, and security/trade secret issues created thereof), and need the sheer agility of having internal staff to deal with emerging IT challenges.
The success of products like VMware and virtualization is not because of new applications implemented in the past decade, but rather, because the applications implemented in the 1990s have simply outlived their hardware and need to be put onto modern hardware. Its far cheaper to virtualize an existing NT 4.0 server implemented in the late 1990s onto a modern VMware box, than it is to pay to have that server upgraded to the latest Windows 2008 or whatever.
Most corporate IT I'm familiar, even in large organizations, is hopelessly stuck in the 1990s. They're just hanging on for dear life trying to keep it running with all the incompetent Indian hacks that have taken over.
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pitz, you must realize that you are the typical problem in IT software development. Gosh you remind me of a stubborn developer that once worked for me. By the way the best decision makers are those who make decisions from the middle ground.
"typical problem"?? Lol. What's that supposed to mean?
Or wait, are you just one of those buzzword bullsh*tters? Now those are 'typical problems in IT software development'.
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and it works on PC, Mac and Linux platforms.
Are you referring to jolicloud or the like http://www.jolicloud.com/ What about security issues with cloud computing?