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MCSE friends who kept their jobs based on that little MCSE badge on their lapel. Most will agree it just gives them that little bit of extra confidence one needs in certain times while fixing IT problems.

Microsoft systems engineers demand in the Armenia's IT market, I don't see any advertised job openings which indirectly reflects the market demand, do you have any idea if Microsoft is doing enough effort to market it's solutions or encourage companies to start using them?

It certainly is not lack of “experts”. If any thing it is too many self declared experts, or cowboys out here. The situation out here is like it was in the UK 15 years ago anyone that did not fit in any other job and was good at messing around with PC’s were taken on and given the run of all things IT, however those days MS Xchange or MS SQL or Windows servers did not exist. So as Microsoft produced them you used them and to cut the story short, you became good at it and persuaded the employers to get it or you kept on the other side and used the unix based equivalents. Software cost is also a consideration. Let’s be open about it, if you do not want to pay your taxes, and find every possible way to get out of paying your dues, would you pay for software?

Having said all that, I must add it is not all doom and gloom, I am old and experienced to remember a very similar situation in the UK all those years ago, as in all matters IT, you either learn the rules and stick to them or you would not be around too long to have a lasting effect on the industry. So fort what it is worth, I fully expect things to get in line with the rest of the world within 18 to 24 months.

After a year out here in Armenia, once disposed of those pink coloured glasses, things continue to look good, and the future looks better than it ever did, living on foreign soil. I am fully at home, yes I suffer from lack of regular water supply, electricity and gas, and get frustrated about quality and cost of internet connection, and for ever unexplainable jittering increases in the value of Armenian Dram, but hey, as Hamo Sahyan said it once, all those things that cause pain and suffering for my people at the moment, are sure to pass like the Romans, Persians, Arabs and alike have long since gone but we are here strong as ever proud as ever standing tall like our mountains waiting to whether the next storm, where ever and when ever it may come.