<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by KLD:
"few years ahead" ??? Are you IT types done stepping on the telephony shoulders to get where you are? The IT controlling phones won't go away. The IP situation won't go away. It's the ISDN of the 80's. The IT people think in bandwidth, not time. They only understand imaginary details (pictures of clouds because they can't define true connectivity between sites). Hard facts are their enemies because they cannot justify their positions if they did use hard facts.
So, just remain years ahead and we'll plod along carrying the load in the real world.
Soap box, anyone? </font>
I suppose I should have clarified that I was referring to the salary compression aspect of what is going on right now. The Dot Bomb of the late 90's took a lot of legitimate IT companies/personnel with it. The result? Out of work professionals willing to work for peanuts, plus a whole host of companies unwilling to pay even discounted rates, instead tasking the employee that "knows about computers". Sounds like a familiar situation, no?
[Sarcastic comments removed - I apologize for not being clear in my initial post.]
As far as the little clouds are concerned, why not just consider it a tribute to those who have gone before (eg - you)? It simply signifies that the technology at that level is assumed to just work, so we don't need to worry about it. Of course, it may not be telephony at all, but that's part of the point.
[This message has been edited by UpstateNetworks (edited July 18, 2005).]
