Raymond Lewallen

Framework Design, Agile Coach, President Oklahoma City Developers Group, Microsoft MVP C#, TDD, Continuous Integration, Patterns and Practices, Domain Driven Design, Speaker, VB.Net, C# and Sql Server

You'll Pay a Premium for These Programmers

From CIO Magazine this August:

A survey of 48,000 IT workers on compensation, published in June by IT consultancy Foote Partners, finds that pay is rising for employees with application development, networking, messaging, database and systems administration know-how, and falling for those with skills in HTTP and HTML, among others.

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SQL Windows

IBM WebSphere

Microsoft .Net

Cisco Certified Security Professional

Certified Information Systems Auditor

HP/Compaq Accredited (and Master Accredited) Systems Engineer

Sun Certified Enterprise Architect/ Certified Programmer for Java 2 platform

Sun Certified Systems Administrator for Solaris

NOT

Powerbuilder

Perl

HTTP

Wireless Markup Language

Webmaster and Internet certifications

HTML

Beginner certifications (for instance, Microsoft Certified Professional)

Siebel Certified Consultant/Customer Certified Consultant

Global Information Assurance Certification Firewall Analyst

Published Aug 18 2005, 01:01 PM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Generalities

Comments

Chris Wallace said:

SQL Windows?

# August 18, 2005 12:21 PM

Raymond Lewallen said:

I'm making the assumption they are talking about and sql compliant database that runs on a windows platform, like Sql Server or Oracle when they say Sql Windows.

# August 18, 2005 1:52 PM

DawlinLi said:

I have a SQL Window

# August 18, 2005 3:57 PM

Bruce Armstrong said:

I imagine they mean the old Gupta SQL Windows product. Perhaps the premium is based on the relative lack of people who still know how to use it. Or perhaps it reflects an issue with the sample that the research firm used to do their study.

# August 18, 2005 4:40 PM

Jason Haley said:

# August 20, 2005 6:32 AM

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About Raymond Lewallen

Working primarily in the public sector during his career, Raymond has designed and built several high profile enterprise level applications for all levels of the government. Raymond now works as a solutions architect for EMC. Raymond is an agile coach, Microsoft MVP C# and also president of the Oklahoma City Developers Group and Oklahoma Agile Developers Group. Raymond spends a lot of his time learning and teaching such things as Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, Design Patterns and Extreme Programming practices and principles, to name a few. Raymond is also an advocate of Alt.Net. Raymond is primarily a framework guy, so don't ask him anything about UI :)