Re: Seen the STC Survey on May 22? (Was: TC definition)

["Michael West" <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- com>]

Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

>There's a reason why
>engineers developing computer HW and SW
>don't go around telling people they work in the
>"IT industry."

And that reason is that many of them *don't* work in the IT industry. And
many TWs/TCs don't either -- which I suspect is why the question appears on
a survey seeking to measure the distribution of TCs/TWs across different
industry sectors. 

But a "software company" *is* in the IT industry, unlike a bank, an
insurance company, a group of department stores, a law firm, a magazine
publisher, an aerospace company, or an engineering consultancy--all of which
employ computer specialists and software engineers and TCs/TWs by the
boatload. But *those* firms are not in the IT industry.

This thread originated when someone who claimed to work for "a software
company" also claimed that "a software company" was not in the IT industry.
The problem was that the OP was confusing intra-company department naming
conventions with global industrial classifications.

It's what they do *as an enterprise* -- not as an individual worker within
the enterprise -- that is being classified.

--
Mike West



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