In an article I wrote last week, I linked to an article on Computerworld that talked about dead and dying computer skills. There was an immediate backlash to the article, which resulted in this article, and it seems that the topic is anything but dead. Of course the whole idea behind the article is subjective and anything but a clear science, so there are going to be arguments. Another article I read about the topic makes a good point:

Old skills die hard, and they should, but maintaining them requires an investment of time, energy and (in the case of certifiable skills) money that could perhaps be directed elsewhere. Knowing when you can walk away from knowledge can be more difficult than managing it.

Luckily for those in the IT Industry, skills that you can walk away from can still provide you some fundamental knowledge that can be applied to new technologies, and really, it is just as important to be able to learn these new skills as it was to know the old ones.

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