I guess it depends on what your interested in. I love Exchange, and plan on staying where I am as long as I can. At this point, my company has no intention of going to Office 365 or anything else cloud-based. If they do decide to go that way, they are still going to need support, so I will update my skills accordingly.
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Tanya Pinetti <[email protected]> wrote: > So I'm in this part of my life where I'm trying to decide if I should > start looking at another IT skill to be a subject matter expert at. I'm > not a Master level in Exchange like some of you, but I think I can rate my > Exchange skills as above average. After all, I've been working on Exchange > since the 5.5 days. > > With Office 365 really catching on and Microsoft heavily promoting it, I'm > starting to feel that the Exchange on-premise skill is a dying skill. I > took a look at the TechEd 2013 tracks and they're favoring Office 365. I > then searched around the job search sites and could hardly find any > Exchange jobs. If I were an IT manager, I would choose Office 365 as well > as it just makes more sense than having on-premise hardware and maintenance. > > I went to a local workshop and by a show of hands, the majority of the > attendees were either on and going to Office 365. I might be just > paranoid, but I'm starting to think I should start looking at another IT > skill. What are your thoughts about this? >
