Scott Gardner

Canadian high-tech workers are much more committed to their jobs than the average employee, according to a new study.

There is little evidence of last spring

Despite an approaching mass retire-off of IT workers with experience in such less-than-sexy areas as COBOL and mainframes, industry watchers say most companies will look for middleware programs before they add middle-aged programmers.

Dell Computer Corp. recently sharpened its blade server attack, announcing the release of hefty, single-board computers attuned to load balancing, Web serving and caching for business.

To put a human face on self-service check-in kiosks, roving Air Canada agents at Toronto's Lester B. Pearson Airport are now using wireless, wearable computers to assist in "line busting" during peak travel periods.

Revenue from wireless data services in Canada will explode from $45 million to $1.3 billion over the next four years, according to a recent study.

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In 2002, companies are looking to fill 38,000 IT jobs