Re: Seen the STC Survey on May 22? (Was: TC definition)

[john -at- garisons -dot- com]

I've been in the software biz for 35 years, and I've always considered it
to be a subset of the IT industry. As insiders, we are probably more
attuned to the subtleties than those not in the biz. Within the software
business, there's a real difference between "systems developers" and
"applications developers" but it's not something that anyone not in the
business would be aware of or particularly care about.

My 2¢,

John Garison

PS - IMHO, a company that produces software that does not fill a human
need won't be in business for very long.

> I'm not Gene, but I assumed that as well since I said the very same
> thing. IIRC, it was then that my cv was brought up with surprise that
> I'd even think this way. Yet here I am, still thinking this way, based
> on everything I've seen and heard since starting work in the software
> industry some 12 years ago. Never had anyone considered their work in
> software development to be IT. They were always two very different
> industries in the minds of those who were working in them. Software
> serves a product need, and IT serves a human need.


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