Before anybody responded to this flamebait, responsible /. readers should have asked who was writing the article. Who is the person who wrote this article, and what agenda could she possibly have? What I mean is, if working for a magazine funded by the IT community (see: the guys that pay IT wages), what would the result of writing an article that said IT employees "had it good" already and were not valuable commodities?

Here are Ericka Chickowski's last 5 articles:

2008-03-07 10 Ways to Cultivate a Creative IT Environment
2008-03-05 Is There Really an IT Labor Shortage?
2008-03-03 6 Ways to Prepare for Inevitable Cost Cuts
2008-02-29 10 Ways IT Employees are Different from Everyone Else
2008-02-21 Employment Outlook: IT Jobs Stable, Salaries Flat


Anybody else see a theme?

If I was a large corporation, and I believed bad times were ahead (given the state of the economy), the first thing I'd do is try to curb new-hires' salary expectations by getting the propaganda machine to churn out some nonsense like the items above.

The fact is, the software developers are the company. Managers, PMs, Human Resources and CEOs like to think they make the world turn, but without developers, they have nothing to sell.

I don't know about you guys, but if I was confident in my skills as a coder/developer/integrator, her article would make laugh.