James Maguire

Also See: See the 2009 IT Salary Guide These are good days to be a network administrator or a desktop support specialist. For that matter, wireless network pros and Windows gurus are also feeling the love. As seen in the survey results below, IT professionals with certain skills are in deep demand. Robert Half Technology, […]

Also See: See the 2009 IT Salary Guide You’ve heard the stereotypes and the misconceptions. Since Linux is free software, the developers who create it are paid next to nothing, right? Wrong. Brent Marinaccio, the director of open source recruiting firm Hot Linux Jobs, has an insider’s view. The Savannah, Georgia-based job placement firm, founded […]

Sure, you’re a big spender. You waltzed right into a gorgeous Apple store and plunked down your credit card. You know you could have gotten a far cheaper handheld, but who impresses their friends by pulling out a Motorola Smartphone? Like, dude, that’s just so lame. Snore…. But now that you’ve taken the plunge, financially, […]

Also see: IT Salary Survey, January 2009 (gives comparative numbers between ’08 and ’09.) You have IT skills and you have experience as a tech professional. You’re even willing to take a shower and dress nicely for an interview. But you’ve seen some big fish slip away. Other candidates scored the IT positions you were […]

The universe of tech blogs is solar system-sized and getting bigger all the time. Part of what makes it so vast is an inescapable fact: people interested in technology spend inordinate time with computers, so naturally a Web-based medium is wildly popular. Notice how many more tech blogs there are than, say, blogs about furniture […]

Sam Ramji is a busy man. As Microsoft’s senior director of platform strategy, his job is a big one: overseeing the company’s initiatives in Linux and open source. Wait a second – Microsoft’sstrategy in open source? Yes, that’s right. The planet’s largest software company, whose relationship with open source has been, at best, hypercompetitive – […]

It’s no surprise that there’s disagreement between IT managers and business executives about which tech trends are most actively changing IT. These two camps often have an adversarial relationship, so it’s expected that they see today’s tech trends in different light. To investigate the matter, research firm IDC asked 236 line-of-business (LOB) execs and 268 […]

It is probably no surprise that Paul Jansen and Robert Dewar feel very differently about not only Java, but about programming languages in general. Paul Jansen, managing director of TIOBE software, maintains the TIOBE index of popular programming languages, which – here’s the key point – ranks Java as the top programming language. Robert Dewar, […]

When I noticed that this list of the popular programming languages placed Java in the top position, I picked up the phone to call Robert Dewar. Several months back I interviewed Dewar, a professor emeritus of computer science at New York University, about Java’s role in the college classroom. What he said in that interview […]

As an emerging technology that promises great cost savings, cloud computing is gaining fans among a broad array of businesses. But do these firms really know what’s inside the opaque, puffy concept of clouding computing? Cloud computing allows companies to outsource part (and sometimes almost all) of their computer processing. Instead of spending on in-house […]