Zachary Rodgers

Help desk pros are among the lowest paid IT workers, in some cases making as little as teachers and social workers. Perhaps this is fitting, since helping users in distress sometimes requires as much counseling as it does systems troubleshooting. But despite their relatively low ranking on the IT salary scale, help desk pros are […]

UNIX software engineers If discussion activity on the Web is any indicator of the current demand for skills in the IT job market, then the world has worked up an appetite for UNIX software engineers. UNIX forums abound, including many general scripting forums, Perl-related forums, Norwegian forums, Chinese forums, members-only forums, and something called the […]

Heads up, IT labor enthusiasts! UNIX systems administrators could be migrating this year en masse, most likely to the urban coastal regions of Silicon Valley and New York. What better chance to grab the binoculars and get a closer look at these versatile creatures? The most striking markings are the tattered sleeves and cuffs of […]

This week we let ourselves get sidetracked from information technology jobs in the strict definition, opting instead for a view of jobs in what you could call technology information. Technical writers, those professionals who carry the burden of translating the interface between users and their technologies into the written word, don’t command the wages that […]

Device drivers, those little applications that make our hardware peripherals go, have often complicated the lives of programmers and systems administrators. They range in complexity from fairly straightforward program routines for simple devices–such as sound cards or zip drives–all the way to the very complex video drivers that manage screen display. Drivers require attention whenever […]

“Pre-IPO! Incredible stock options!” “Consulting engineer wanted–new start up!” “IPO fever!!” The language is familiar to any IT pro who has logged time on Internet job boards. And nowhere is the start-up frenzy more unrestrained than in Silicon Valley, bastion of aspiring high-tech firms and dot-coms. Dice.com, Datamation’s sister site and an online job board […]

In July 2000, employers were offering SAP professionals an average salary of $81,500 per year and an average contract rate of $76 per hour, according to dice.com, Datamation’s sister site and an online job board for IT professionals. Results are based on 443 listings for this type of professional, with cities bearing fewer than 10 […]

In the second installation of a month-long series of charts on job availabilities in Silicon Valley, we look at senior-level positions in the high-tech haven. Dice.com, Datamation’s sister site and an Internet job board for IT professionals, contained 1,146 job listings for senior IT pros in Silicon Valley in April 2000. Senior software engineers were […]

What is Silicon Valley, exactly? Is it a state of mind, the molten core of the new economy, an actual place? The commercial/industrial zone south of San Francisco Bay resists easy definition. While the region has seen spectacular growth and innovation, not to mention some of the highest IT salaries in the world, it has […]

Since their original implementation in manufacturing environments in the early seventies, the role of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems has become crucial to businesses in virtually all industries. The right ERP set-up can potentially reach into every corner of an operation, from accounting to customer relationship management to deployment of new products and services. Naturally, […]