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Story: Ten secrets about working in IT
IT veterans have seen it all before
When you have been in the business for about 15 years you start to notice that so called "new technologies" are in fact no different to some of the old stuff that you cut your teeth on. eg Virtualisation - we were doing that in the 1970's. The basic contructs used in most computer languages were all in Algol68 but no one seems to remember. As for sales pitches I can't remember how many times Video on Demand has been relaunched and failed to take off (the latest version is on mobile phones). The IT industry was summed up to me once when I was once in a presentation about a new version of Oracle; someone asked the question "what platform does it run on" a member of the audience shouted out "an overhead projector".
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