Well, I don;t know if networkworld i the best source for recommendations on the state of the market. Further, IT is a pretty nebulous term. Given that it is networkworld, I am going to assume that they are particularly talking about system admin, db admin type roles. While those are not my direct fields, it appears to me that as of lately, there has been a sizable uptick of employment activity for software developers. Whether this is due to the quantitative easing money being in the market or not, I don't have the requisite skills to deduce but there is most certainly an uptick in activity, that seems to contradict the conclusion of this article.