Industry sources count them at just 5% of the founders and chief executives of tech start-ups, a quarter of computingprofessionals and 11% of tech investors.
We the Malaysian ICT professionals have been alarmed by the sudden announcement of the Board of ComputingProfessionals Draft Bill 2011 which caught most of us off-guard resulting in mixed reactions and unnecessary arguments.
Board of ComputingProfessionals Malaysia does not aim to regulate the computing profession in the nation but only applies to those who are identified as Critical National Information Infrastructure (CNII) entities with the intent to safeguard the interest of the nation in view of the current dynamic and challenging global environments.
While discrete graphics cards high performance appeals to gamers and professionals who require high-end computing, integrated graphics is aimed to support minimal graphics requirements of a PC.
Looking forward, the people who seem likely to be in especially short supply begin with corporate managers, computing and IT specialists, and health-care professionals.
For example, cloud computing could benefit startups by making it cheaper to start a company, but this could put IT professionals who work at local offices out of work if servers all move to server farms.