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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (168)9/5/1997 9:56:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce   of 9818
 
Computerworld: "IS salaries heading into the stratosphere"

cwlive.cw.com:8080/home/online9697.nsf/All/970901survey

However, the anticipated Y2K COBOL premium has yet to show up.

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Bigger raises in the lower ranks is likely a reflection of the premiums being paid for newer technology skills.

[...]

"Senior systems analysts and programmers tend to be old-school types
doing Cobol and mainframes," says David W. Markle, manager of
information technology at AlliedSignal, Inc. in Colorado Springs. "The
cutting-edge technology on the application development side today is
Microsoft [Visual Basic], C++ [and] Java, and the younger generation
tends to have a better handle on that."
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