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   I have read an article in Computerworld.com, the article generally circles around the dying computer skills, I was quite surprise to learn that one of my favorite application server was involve in the list knowing that it was just release in the early 90’s. I don’t know the basis for this dying computer skills but I have a small idea unto why they even created "the list".

  1st one COBOL: back in the early 80’s or 90’s the demand for COBOL programmers where at its highest peak but during the Y2K era the demand quickly spiral down almost hitting rock bottom. According to major Universities in the US that teaches Computer Science the inclusion of COBOL in their curriculum is minimal but if students want to learn COBOL they can do so at Southern Illinois University.

    2nd one Non Relational Database: by the increasing popular demand of high end relational database why would anyone support the latter? Back in our college days we were introduce to mySQL and Microsoft SQL server, hierarchical systems like IBM’s IMS and SAS Institute Inc.’s System 2000 might be seeing the end of days.

    3rd one non IP networks: I don’t even know if most computer systems nowadays doesn’t use non IP standards, back in the days when the OSI standards was not develop there were tons of error and interoperability of two different networks could not co-exist if merge together.

    4th one ccMail?: I’ve never heard of this, is it a web mail standard such as SMTP? okay here’s the deal, ccMail was the first ever email system used by 20 million people in early 80’s but as email systems were merge into complex system ccMail just could not take the leap, according to foote ccMail is a bygone era falling short to existing more popular SMTP for network systems.

    5th one Coldfusion: now this is very disheartening, why? I really love coldfusion and I want to work in an environment wherein Coldfsuion was the top gun. Here’s the situation when coldfusion was a part of defunct Macromedia, coldfusion was very popular, but when Adobe bought Macromedia it’s popularity decreases, one factor that I consider was Coldfusion was very expensive, unlike it’s counterpart which is almost free. Here in the Philippines the demand for Coldfusion Programmers is zero to none meaning if you’re going to master this web applications language I would suggest you should just go for Php, RoR and ASP.net.

    6th one C programming: LOL.. this one heck of a language gave us quite a trouble back in my fresh men years, according to computerworld.com as the web starts to take over C programming becomes relevant but put C++ and C# sharp aside both of this language are still alive and kickin’. If you happen to know people that are "master" of C programming computerworld.com say’s that these people are either unemployed or training for new skills…LOL…

    7th one Powerbuilder: a programming language owned by Powersoft Inc, this once famous Client/Server technology is in the very bottom list of in demand computer skills today, Powersoft Inc was once a top rival of Oracle. Powerbuilder 11 which is state to be release this year has the ability to generate (dot) net code according to Computerworld.com.

    8th one Certified Netware Engineers: Netware was a network operating system it was develop by Novell Inc. back in the days when certified Netware Engineers were in the rage, Novell Inc enjoyed a 90% market share for PC based servers. However, today CNe’s are learning new skills just to stay marketable, Netware once reach its prime but now quickly loosing value.

    9th one PC Network Administrators: Human PC network admin’s quickly bug down to its all time low according to Computerworld.com, as technology progresses a new way to maintain network environment has been implemented, back in my college years we were taught on how to maintain and troubleshoot networks using console’s enabling a Network admin to remotely access or fix network flaws and bugs.

    10th one OS/2: this once good Operating system has been develop both by Microsoft and IBM then later develop by IMB exclusively. The name OS/2 means Operating Systems/2 it was primarily use for the release of IBM’s new line of personal computers.