IBM fund retrains to fight U.S. job drain

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Some of our kids friends' are looking, either because they've lost their jobs or they see little potential where they are. ... The feedback I get is that the high demand is for what you are listing [as the subjects in IBM's training], plus J2EE which I didn't notice.

I wonder if the absence of J2EE was just an oversight, or if it is related to the contest between IBM and Sun over control of Java, where J2EE is a significant point of contention.
From the Berlind Commentary elsewhere on ZDNet:

In addition to Eclipse, Big Blue, along with BEA, took another swipe at Sun with J2EE extensions. IBM and BEA, which combined have a controlling share of the market for Java-based application servers (known as J2EE), waited until precisely the day after the most recent J2EE standard was published by the Java Community Process (the organization which oversees Java standardization) to announce joint support for three proprietary J2EE extensions. Later, after the extensions had been turned over to the JCP for eventual incorporation as Java standards, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun executive vice president for software, discounted the move as a desperate response to Sun's own offering a free J2EE-based application server.

But doesn't pay to read too much into missing references; probably was an oversight.

The bigger question concerns the good market for younger people who know Linux and other open source or quasi-open source software. We know that they're replacement products, mainly affecting Unix, at least for now.

Does this mean that companies are replacing older, higher salaried staff with younger people? Or are they adding staff to manage the change and maintain and tweak the software?

I'd thought the change could occur with existing staff, so it was employment neutral. Sounds like it might not be.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 03/01/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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