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Re:Tech Jobs That the Cloud Will Eliminate - hands-on techni... by HoneyAndSilicon on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @07:08AM (#717674)
A reminder to take nothing for granted. That being said, local technical work - where one's physical presence is required - continues to be in demand. The non-techies will continue to need hand-holding.

This applies even in technological backwaters such as I'm in - maybe even more so. Living out here does present some challenges for start-up work, but more and more luddite businesses are finding they have to be web-connected if not web-based. So they need me (and can have me - until my night job becomes my day job).

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Re:Tech Jobs That the Cloud Will Eliminate - hands-on techni... by gaius on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @07:51AM (#717708)
local technical work

That's only partly true. What matters is competitive advantage. No company is more competitive because its (say) email server is more reliable than its rivals. Therefore email is ripe for outsourcing. But in any area where IT/software/computation is a competitive advantage, that will stay in-house (possibly using cloud-like technologies, but that's not relevant to this analysis).

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