Subj : Re: market change due to
To   : Arelor
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Sep 14 2025 09:10:35

-=> Arelor wrote to Dart <=-

 Ar> Unpopular opinion here: IT as a sector is bound to enter a crisis
 Ar> because so much IT personal is producing no value at all.

 Ar> I am talking about startups working on products everybody but the
 Ar> owners know are not viable, things like that. I think there is a shift
 Ar> going on because the people owning the enterprises are starting to
 Ar> realize they are pouring money in vaporware and that is leading to
 Ar> cuts.

When you say IT, I'm thinking of the people supporting the tech, the
devops people, the corporate IT people, infosec, and so forth. We have
our own problems, primarily when organizations get larger and entire
departments need to justify their existence.

I think of an environment where we inherited a wonderful server room
with 4-post racks and a monster UPS supporting the room. The server room
architect recommended enclosed racks with decentralized UPSes running 90
degrees from the current layout.

The building architect laying out 3 floors decided in his plans to
delete the stacked closets that were already in place with riser cabling
and HVAC then made a stink about having to add closets back in. I ended
up with roughly half the space and had to add in new HVAC.

We could have moved in under budget and on time, instead ran into issues
with floor loading that required the building to get involved and file
approvals, needing to run cabling to new closets, and the new UPSes were
late. But, the architects got paid.

 
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