"Doctor John" <doc### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
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> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080516_004925.html
>

I really like this extract. Could not have said it better....

"Outsourcing, while a very popular recommendation to improve IT, is treating
the symptom and not the problem. The problem is IT applications require lots
of ongoing maintenance and that costs labor, meaning REAL MONEY. Rather than
make applications more reliable and reduce problems, IT managers seem to
prefer shopping for cheaper labor. The problems are still there. It is
cheaper to fix them with offshoring and outsourcing, true, but it often
takes longer. If the end users -- the people who actually make MONEY for the
company (IT doesn't, Lord knows) -- are unable to work from time to time,
this is okay because IT is spending less money.
Yeah, right.

Much of this comes down to the decided lack of professionalism in IT, which
is after all a very new job classification. There is a huge difference, for
example, between someone with an engineering degree and someone in IT who
calls himself an engineer. Real engineers are often valued employees. Their
opinions matter and they have real responsibilities. Good companies know
engineers are important to their business and treat them accordingly. But IT
workers are a commodity and are treated as such. Many IT workers are
clueless about the technologies they are working with. They aspire to be
project managers and are often not very good at that either."



And those few who aren't clueless about the technologies are ignored by
management and their opinions and advice discounted because "They're just
programmers/syadmins/DBAs. The consultants cost a lot more and hence must be
more knowledgeable."

I've personally seen 2 cases of that so far this year

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