(July 9, 2012 at 5:28 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I disagree. There is no value in knowing how to run a business around computers if you have no idea what the computers are doing, or why problem X is happening.
An IT professional may not know 'what computers are doing' to the same extent as a computer science professional, but to say they have no idea is way overboard, and frankly wrong.
And there is absolutely value if you have better managerial skills and understand business infrastructure and hierarchy more than someone who simply knows more in depth knowledge about computers.
It's like saying a machine operator can't do his job because he doesn't know the in depth details of how the machine was made and how all the pieces fit together. Total bollocks in my opinion.
Quote:I've met IT guys who have no idea what IP addresses actually are, or have confused a single IP address with an IP range. Sure, they can probably configure a load of routers and Windows software better than I could, but at the end of the day, give me an instruction manual and I bet I could get it working too.
So are you saying people who are in IT aren't needed at all? I don't really buy it.
Quote:It would take an IT guy far longer to learn about what his configuration was actually doing.
If their job is installing routers and software, which you admitted they can probably do better than you, and not their job to learn about what the configuration is actually doing, then why would you be hired for the job and not them?
I reckon both have positives, ofcourse there is more knowledge from a computer science guy than an IT guy about computer systems as a whole, but I think IT is just as relevant as computer science, they just lead you down different paths.
