Monday, June 4th 2007
Top 10 dead/dying PC skills listed
ComputerWorld has done some research, and compiled a very interesting list of the PC skills that currently have little or no demand. Here is a very shortened version of that list. Please check the source link for the full version of the list with a much better explanation of, well, everything.
First place: Cobol.
Cobol is a very old programming language that saw a quick spike during the Y2K paranoia. However, since then, Cobol has been slowly on the way out, Universities no longer teach it, and rarely anyone uses it.
Second place: Nonrelational DBMS.
DBMS is an old database protocol, sort of like MySQL. MySQL is in fact one of the database protocols that replaced DBMS.
Third place: Networks without IP addresses.
This one's self explanatory. Back in the late 1980's/early 1990's, corporations thought it would be a sweet idea to put their computers on networks without IP addresses. Considering that a computer's IP address is like a regular mailing address, networks sans IP kinda bit the dust.
4: CC:Mail, the classic store-and-forward E-mail system of the 1980's.
5: ColdFusion, another forgotten programming language.
6: C/C++ programming, which is used by high school programming teachers as a torture device.
7: Powerbuilder, yet another forgotten programming language.
8: Netware engineers, who did stuff with the programming platform Netware. Netware was a great programming platform right until Microsoft unleashed NT. All Netware programmers got certified in and switched over to NT within 2 years.
9: PC Network administrators, who's role is becoming automated by very smart and easy to configure/use Windows servers.
10: OS/2, a joint attempt to make an operating system by IBM and Microsoft. It's been an almost unheard of operating system with a very small group of dedicated users, and was officially discontinued in 2005.
Source:
ComputerWorld
First place: Cobol.
Cobol is a very old programming language that saw a quick spike during the Y2K paranoia. However, since then, Cobol has been slowly on the way out, Universities no longer teach it, and rarely anyone uses it.
Second place: Nonrelational DBMS.
DBMS is an old database protocol, sort of like MySQL. MySQL is in fact one of the database protocols that replaced DBMS.
Third place: Networks without IP addresses.
This one's self explanatory. Back in the late 1980's/early 1990's, corporations thought it would be a sweet idea to put their computers on networks without IP addresses. Considering that a computer's IP address is like a regular mailing address, networks sans IP kinda bit the dust.
4: CC:Mail, the classic store-and-forward E-mail system of the 1980's.
5: ColdFusion, another forgotten programming language.
6: C/C++ programming, which is used by high school programming teachers as a torture device.
7: Powerbuilder, yet another forgotten programming language.
8: Netware engineers, who did stuff with the programming platform Netware. Netware was a great programming platform right until Microsoft unleashed NT. All Netware programmers got certified in and switched over to NT within 2 years.
9: PC Network administrators, who's role is becoming automated by very smart and easy to configure/use Windows servers.
10: OS/2, a joint attempt to make an operating system by IBM and Microsoft. It's been an almost unheard of operating system with a very small group of dedicated users, and was officially discontinued in 2005.
33 Comments on Top 10 dead/dying PC skills listed
I dont think thats a protocol :p...
Its a piece of software. And I doubt its going out of use.
C/C++ has new iterations it seems every year. Its still widely in use and along with Visual Basic, is included in alot of MS Code. I think it will be awhile before C/C++ is gone.
Ive seen a few new programming languages out and new programming os and such (oracle database, leopard, etc and some programming codes I cant remember) and alot of companies here are hiring for those who know them.
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