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"Bobby D. Bryant" wrote:
> You don't even need a CS degree.  I formerly worked at a big company
> that tried moving people into IT to keep from having to lay them off
> while hiring new IT staff at the same time.  What was immediately
> visible to me (if not to management) is that almost anyone can "learn" a

Televerket (the swedish state-owned telephone company) did that
stunt in 1994 i think. They were changing switching technology at
that time.

They took network engineers and/or network techs and retrained them as 
system analysts, system programmers and other IT functions.

Result: they got a force of very effective and experienced people with a 
strong belief in the company.