Thursday, May 24, 2007

Dead IT Skills

ComputerWorld identifies the skills which are no longer job-tickets:

COBOL, non-relational DBMS's, SNA, "C", ColdFusion, PowerBuilder, Certified Netware Engineers, OS/2, and PC Network Engineers.

Well, kinda, mostly, sorta.

COBOL will be around forever, just like BAL and "C." But it's rare to find large-scale development projects utilizing them--just like Big Blue's SNA and OS/2 (which was DOA anyway.)
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They ain't dead, but as the article says, no one is throwing money at you to have the skills. UW-Platteville's CS program is still pretty heavy into COBOL. A relative is graduating and already has a job with Great Lakes in Madison. It's all about if you have what they want, because they sure as heck aren't going to train you. I think the article was hitting more on consulting/temporary contracts.

5/24/2007 11:15 AM
Dad29 said...

Yah.

"...they aren't going to train you" is the key phrase.

Any business worth spit will invest in equipment, and usually the writeoff is 5-10 years.

Same investment in PEOPLE?? No way.

5/24/2007 2:59 PM

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