[G32]

I'm staying in pure IT until I can finish my degree in business and get the heck out of this field.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Half of US IT operations jobs to vanish

Awesome news!!! Wow, technology is fantastic! First the horse and buggy driver gets replaced, then some of the manual assembly people, now half of the IT jobs. Great news! We're making progress!!!

And to think that unemployment always stays so incredibly low with this kind of thing happening... What a country!!!

[NonValueAdded]

Just look at all the commercials with the theme "you don't need IT guys."

[DeFault User]

Just like the improvements in automobile technology have eliminated the need for mechanics? I believe Bill Gates will keep the bugs a'comin'.

[trebb]

I hear there ain't many blacksmith jobs anymore. I don't recall the last time I saw the Ice Man coming around neither. I guess that when some jobs go away, others end up being created.

[KarlInOhio]

Read more at macworld.com ...

There's the problem - MacWorld. He is greatly underestimating the amount of work Bill Gates and gang are putting into making their operating systems and applications vulnerable to hacking and viruses and keep IT people employed.

[Revolting cat!]

Everybody knows the future.

[Rodney King]

Glad I'm not in IT.

[Brian328i]

We'll adjust and create new fields, no biggy...

[Bhrian]

Time to concentrate on business and science skills. Life sciences look best. With more and more senior citizens in the US there will be more need for drugs!

[Dilbert56]

As long as they don't come after us keypunchers.....

[ProudVet77]

Keyword operational jobs
Operations is considered overhead. People are always working on ways to reduce costs here. It used to take 1 full time person to support a single small OS that was used for development when I started out. And that did not include hardware support. Now you can support 100s of servers with a handful of people 24x7. It has to do with an increase in hardware quality, software quality and automation of maintenance activities.

[Voltage]

There is a way to keep the jobs in the USA: CLICK

[Shryke]

Yep. IT is bye-bye. Think about. Remember all those things most people had to pay for someone to do dozens of years ago, and now do themselves? Like plumbing? And electrical work? Mechanics?

All of those are now being done by regular people!!

Seriously, show me a company that has an under-staffed IT department, and I'll show you a company that is bleeding money from innefficiency.

[Tribune7]

In an eyebrow-raising forecast, Gartner Inc. researchers said they believe that as many as 50 percent of the IT operational jobs in the U.S. could disappear over the next two decades because of improvements in data center technologies.

No offense to the IT guys but this is a good thing.

[Walkin Man]

...researchers said they believe that as many as 50 percent of the IT operational jobs in the U.S. could disappear over the next two decades...

...and reappear in India!

[reagandemo]

Let me see started in IT got downsized moved to software development and job got outsourced to India. Hummm they will always have a need for garbage collection.

[glorgau]

Hopefully, this is true. The large part of IT operations are akin to having telephone operators plugging cords into a switchboard. The work can be automated and done better, faster and more securely. For instance, provisioning a network of thousands of computer should _not_ take thousands of "support" personnel.

For myself, I'd much rather be working on something interesting than doing the rote, no-nothing work that comprises much of IT today.

[DouglasKC]

Get out while the getting is good. I've been in the field for 20 years and am getting out to start my own business...non IT.

[liberty_lvr]

It's Bush's Fault!!

Wink, wink...