Yet if the gaps that do exist in certain areas continue to be ignored, when the economy does pick up again we'll be back to square one: facing the same problem that has plagued the IT industry for more than two decades.silicon.com's survey has...
The net may be tightening but it is evident a discrepancy between demand and availability for certain programming skills does still exist. Yet what is interesting is the grouping of these skills under the umbrella category of language programming...
Reader comments were generally couched in terms of regret for lost values of the past. Yet web services is an implementation of lightweight remote objects and 'new' programming languages depend on the ancient, by IT standards, concept of a virtual...
Fewer worms and viruses exist for open source products such as Linux, reducing the risk of infection and the associated costs. Nik Ehmann, ISP team leader at Newtel Solutions, a Channel Islands telephone service provider with 35 employees, says...
Skills shortages still exist in the IT market and contractors with sought-after skills will expect a pay rise in the coming year, the spokeswoman added. The survey also found more than 15 per cent of contractors have no knowledge of the popular...
All the same, none of this means prejudice does not exist. There are always conflicts over what counts as fair pay, and there may be distortions such as the effect of changes in remuneration on final salary schemes, where they still exist.