Dilbert IT

[Krenshau]

Some of you may have gotten this article, but I thought I would post it since it is pretty interesting, at least to me.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2104997,00.asp

[BillGeek]

I hate reading such long articles! But I might find it interesting...

[penagate]

That was a good article; I found it quite relevant.

What people need to do, instead of complaining about commoditisation, is accept that it will always happen and focus on creating the technology to automate today's commoditised tasks. Technology is about innovation: creating the wheel, not turning it.

[wossname]

I'm lucky to work in a small R&D department. It is the promised land as far as I'm concerned. The work isn't always very inspiring (although sometimes it kicks posterior) but the other guys here are all really clever and the atmosphere is good and thus is a high standard of quality produced.

I'm not saying its as much fun as Xerox PARC in its heyday but I wouldn't want to work anywhere else right now (not realistically speaking anyway, I'd give my left nadger to work in R&D for Honda).

[timeshifter]

I work as just a plain ol' programmer... someone needs something built, I build it... I have a little bit of flexibility as to features, which lets me play around a bit... but it still has to do what the customer asks... and sometimes they can be incredibly stupid...

[vbcode1980]

I work at a small company and I do a lot of different things.
Project management, software implementation, software installation, support, sometimes I code something, or I do a little network administration.