Techie Quotes

With all the talk of telecommuting, ... it's not a hugely widespread practice, even among techies. A survey like this one about telecommuting would naturally draw a high percentage of telecommuters. But we found only 48 percent of respondents saying that they actively telecommute. - Cynthia Morgan

Unlike a techie person, who's just in the techie world, I'm in all these different worlds. Sometimes it's the techie stuff that I was trained for, but then I end up being the translator to let the clinicians know what the problems are. - Alan Lipschultz

Rising rates won't hurt the new techies, but they might impact the 'old economy' customers. - Larry Wachtel

A lot of what SOA is about, what's fundamentally different about SOA, is that it's about defining what services mean to the business. Business and technology together need to map the enterprise. That's fundamentally not a technology activity, although the techies can help there by pushing the conversation in the right direction. - David Clarke

[The feeds and speeds of the T1 chips will be interesting to techies, of course. But Sun is trying to take a higher road to try to peddle its Niagara gear.] It's time the technology industry took a stand--tripling your datacenter performance shouldn't mean tripling your power bill and needing more coal fired power plants... It's becoming more obvious by the day that extreme efficiency is good for the environment, and good for business--there are proof points everywhere, from hybrid auto companies that can't keep up with demand to fuel efficient aircraft dominating the marketplace. Customers want this same Eco-responsibility in their datacenters. - Jonathan Schwartz

[The controversy in the IT (information technology) career sector over the H-1B visa has again come into stark relief, as techies.com releases a new survey of more than 1,100 tech professionals. The techies.com site is a leading hub of IT industry issues.] And the tech workers we surveyed, ... think it can affect their job security and pay scales. - Cynthia Morgan

[But the techies surveyed offer the same reasons for not telecommuting that King had mentioned earlier:] In most cases, tech workers don't telecommute because their bosses discourage it or their companies prohibit it, ... Sixty percent of help-desk and support workers don't telecommute at all -- often because they're in the office supporting all the other telecommuters. In some cases, they're working on large, expensive equipment that you just can't take home with you. - Cynthia Morgan