Who do you think has it right?

ARTICLE: Leading Men, By Robert Cringely, August 22, 2008

An interesting way to capture connectivity - Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts.

I will say, when I sit in rooms with international businessmen who know stuff like this, they foresee a very different world than that imagined by defense types who measure power in their own way. Of course, each side has opinions about who's being naive.

The data: CCIE water cooler gossip: 9 year worldwide CCIE count by region and country

(Thanks: Christopher Plummer)

Comments

[William R. Cumming]

WOW! Another great post. This data should be reviewed closely by the intel and finance sectors for its real substance. I bet on the CCIE types as being the shock troops for globalization and many other activities. I am really glad to see this data displayed. NOTE WITH CARE PRC/ and other Asian numbers.

[Eric Fisher]

CCIE's are not just shock troops---they are digital architects, resiliency experts and connect all things digital. ALL data flowing around the planet flows through infrastructure they helped design. Digital plumbers for a digital world----where they work, data flows and people get "connected".