10 IT Skills That Are Becoming Obsolete

Enterprise CIO ^ | 11/11/2013 | Esther Shein

[Lazamataz]

Massive CRM apps like PeopleSoft and Siebel are going away in favor of cloud-hosted apps.

You Peoplesoft folk were way overpaid anyways! Y'all should have put up a few bucks while the weather was still warm!

[Lazamataz]

COBOL does seem here to stay.

I have some COBOL background, but I don't think I'd go back.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"Can someone make SAP go away?

I can't, but if I were emperor of the world it would be one of the first things I would do.

But only after ridding the world of the scourges of Business Objects and Java.

[epluribus_2]

Assumed= assembler. Oh open SRC enterprise java is also one gigantic yak-shave. Abandon all hope ye who enters that pit.

[dfwgator]

That, and it’s also the a big part of frameworks, like Twitter Bootstrap.

[Lazamataz]

I’m finding myself to be more computer literate than the kids these days. They use an app for everything.

Good.

That means we will retain that rarefied and unique nature, and have the payrolls to prove it. :)

[Lazamataz]

Assumed= assembler. Oh open SRC enterprise java is also one gigantic yak-shave. Abandon all hope ye who enters that pit

My best career move EVER was to break towards VB/ASP/C#.NET, instead of Java.

[Lazamataz]

I seem to have an uncanny ability to gravitate towards the right languages and tools.

Got a jQuery bug up my butt last year, been embracing it to sit on my ASP.NET.

[sand88]

I find now one of the hottest skills is JavaScript, especially jQuery.

You are correct. By using AJAX features of javascript/jQuery I have been developing some very complex apps that perform as well as desktop apps.

It is amazing the performance you can get. jQuery does make it easy to get code to work in various browsers.

[sand88]

But with billions of lines of COBOL code in place in some of the world’s most critical IT infrastructure, COBOL isn’t about to die out.

I read a few years ago, at that time, COBOL had the greatest number of lines of code in the field.

COBOL isn't going a way for a long time.

[AU72]

I’m working at a major food chain supplier and still using VMware.

[dfwgator]

I mostly develop in Java (we host on Linux servers), I use Apache Wicket, which easily works with jQuery/Bootstrap.

I basically have my GUI guy design the HTML pages, then I easily incorporate the data bindings, so it’s a good division of labor. I HATE JSPs/JSFs with their intermixing of logic and markup.

[jimt]

Absolutely.

ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE !!!

[PeteB570]

No XP - what am I going to do?

XP is still chugging along on my PC.

My MAC is running W 7 on the parallel Desk Top.

[USS Alaska]

Traditional telephony.

Of course, the land line is becoming less used but there will be a need for those skills long after you are dead and buried.

My "land line" is delivered via combination, phone, internet and TV, but there are still hundreds of million phones that use the traditional phone lines.

A hundred million of anything is a market.

[dfwgator]

When the SHTF, somebody has to know these old technologies.

[COBOL2Java]

My dad made a small fortune doing COBOL remediation prior to Y2K. He said that if you could spell "COBOL" properly, you were given a blank check.

Ah, those were the days! :-)

[central_va]

8. Server-only admin skills. Virtualization is becoming more ubiquitous and fewer physical servers are being deployed, meaning there are fewer to set up and configure.

Unix skills will be in demand for a long time.

[sima_yi]

At my company we say “It’s called SAP because you need to be one to buy it.”

[COBOL2Java]

COBOL does seem here to stay.

I have some COBOL background, but I don't think I'd go back.

I did COBOL for almost 13 years (87-00). It was fun. You haven't lived 'til you've wrestled with a 10,000 line COBOL program with 4 7-layer arrays and crawled out with your sanity intact. Boy, howdy!