From: Roy Dempsey (roy.dempsey@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2005 - 12:10:58 GMT-3
Came across this article, don't know anything about the source.
However, as someone who's been studying for this for a long time, I
hope its not accurate.
Quote :
"I was interested to see that RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) was
listed in slot 3 of certifications IT professionals want to get.
CCIE ( Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) is at the top, which I
think shows tremendous short-sightedness. Folks, networking, routing
and firewalls are still "hot" skills, but that's not going to last.
All this stuff is going to be packaged up into teeny little hardware
bundles that any idiot can configure - in fact, it is close to that
point now and really is already for the home user. Yes, corporate
networks demand a bit more, but not all that much more. In a few more
years, you won't need any high-cost certified type to control even a
fairly complex network.
But OS support and administration has longer lasting legs. Any random
idiot can't necessarily install and configure a server or maybe even a
desktop PC if it is part of a larger network. Not yet, anyway - though
zero brain configuration of desktops is often possible, servers are a
long way from that. Will it stay that way forever? Of course not -
that's one reason I'm glad to be getting close to retirement age:
servers are already starting to become appliances, and the trend will
continue, requiring less and less knowledge and intelligence at the
point of use. If I were in my twenties or thirties, I would have to be
thinking realistically that the market for my skills may be slowly
drying up. We old geezers and young whippersnappers alike can count on
at least another decade of being needed, but my crystal ball gets
cloudy after that. "
Link (watch the wrap):
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