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
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33 Comments on Top 10 dead/dying PC skills listed

#26
tkpenalty
I dont understand how C++ would be dying... its widely used in many programs. VB ftl!!!
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#27
ex_reven
zekrahminatorSecond 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.
DBMS = Database Management System ...aka any program allowing you to create, edit and manage databases, such as Microsoft Access.
I dont think thats a protocol :p...
Its a piece of software. And I doubt its going out of use.
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#28
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
I was gonna say ,the last time I used cobol was in 97 in college. I learned it, but even back then they said it was a very old programming language and wasnt going to be around long.

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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#29
russianboy
microsoft should go back to visual basic. lol.
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#30
a111087
i certainly didn't think PC Network administrators will be laid off soon
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#31
von kain
yoohoo basic isn't dead i can use my amstrad 6128 to make code for windows vista
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#32
russianboy
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Rundll32 user32,SwapMouseButton
cls
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#33
newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
Ha, I still have a friend that goes on and on about how much better Netware is over Microsoft's solutions! He is utterly amazed most of the time when he comes to me and says "hey I just learned that Netware lets me do _____, you can't do that with Windows" and I say "yeah, I have been doing that for sometime now with Windows".
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