Howard Rubin Quotes
While we are seeing all organizations moving away from reactive IT spending and toward improved agility and long-term strategic support at a macro scale, there are a number of different trends that are specific to each industry, geography and organization size.
- Howard Rubin
We are short somewhere between 290,000 and 350,000 IT workers, but no one knows for sure. It looks like it's both a shortage of people and a mismatch of skills in the marketplace that produce vacancies. But it doesn't matter what the cause is if you can't fill jobs that support income and revenue for your company -- the effect is there.
- Howard Rubin
There are more college kids in IT-related programs, but universities still are not keeping up with industry demand. About 30,000 to 35,000 students will graduate this year in all computer science-related fields. But that represents a 10-1 spread between the supply of students and the shortage.
- Howard Rubin
The brokerage industry shutting down for one day seems to buy some time to deal with the year 2000 problem. But in the scheme of things, and how far away it is from us right now, it really doesn't buy them a whole lot. As a matter of fact, it could cause some trading bubbles and other things that could load their systems even more.
- Howard Rubin
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