| I was talking to my 18 year old the other day about his future. He's quite good with the computer (started using Visual Basic when he was 14). So I suggest computer telephony to him. How many kids are getting into that? Not many. My point was, and I bang on my four kids all the time about it, supply and demand. Capitalism. How much is something worth? My second son, Joshua, when he was 8, new the answer was, whatever someone is willing to pay for it. Back to Charlie the 18 year old. I was telling Chuck that there will be a lot more VoIP down the road and as I see it the supply of qualified techs to manage these systems might well be in short supply, thus driving up the salaries. Am I wrong? Should I be worried? How can I, as a stubborn old phone man, get with the program? I'm currently on an Avaya Definity r.8 switch. Will I be able work on a new VoIP system if a job comes available in my home state of Texas? (Please, God help me get back to Texas!)
It looks inevitable that our current extremely stable platform will fall by the wayside, pressure from the vendors and IT geeks will see to it. Should I be happy about it?
Richard |