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Not certain what you are talking about

There is no effort to "get rid" of anybody. The common theme of enterprise architecture is to unify and simplify the infrastructure. The goal is to cluster common services, to select from the hardware vendor that best meets, without being beholden to any of them. And for the first time in the history of computing, we have an operating system that admits this goal. Somehow, the significance of this fact is lost on those that don't plan, acquire and operate major IT systems.

I'm not the CIO of any of the major corporations, just one of the planners, collaborating with opposite numbers in other organizations, exchanging best practices and figuring out how best to get "there from here." But I can tell you that CEOs and their financial types are looking closely at how we perform and they read the financial press as well; they expect results and we owe them to the leaders and the owners.

I freely admit that we are dramatically cutting O&M costs - okay, TCO, when you hold your services at a constant, and that does mean a loss of operator jobs - but we are subject to constant demands on the part of customers to expand the range and the interoperability of systems, and that means higher paying jobs that are highly resistant to offshoring.

This one got by me...

Maybe by then there won't be so many open source volunteers wrecking their prospects of finding a new job, and Microsoft will inherit. Agreed?

If you're talking about people developing operating systems, we don't do that - we buy computers with operating systems. As I recall, the total population of operating system developers amounts to about 4% of the development population (gee, if it were much higher, what would be the point in an operating system?), so even if all OS developers were "volunteers (a far cry from reality!), the overall impact on IT employment would not be nearly as great as many posters here like to pretend.

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