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I've found that in some fashion here the IT term is used as a synonym to technical support and sys admin:

From the FAQ:

... system administrators and IT professionals[;] people who
 manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity....

While I have conceived it as a larger area, that include of course technical support, but expands also to software development, software management, hardware, methodologies etc.

For me IT is like the whole brach of knowledge.

For instance, I wouldn't use the following:

 "Call IT"..

because it is like

 ... call who? IT is the whole industry!!

But I see here it would be a reasonable statement. "The IT guys" or the "IT department".

Is this something cultural? Did I get the IT term wrong and it is actually "sys admin" only related?

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I've found that in some fashion here the IT term is used as a synonym to technical support and sys admin:

From the FAQ:

... system administrators and IT professionals[;] people who
 manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity....

While I have conceived it as a larger area, that include of course technical support, but expands also to software development, software management, hardware, methodologies etc.

For me IT is like the whole brach of knowledge.

For instance, I wouldn't use the following:

 "Call IT"..

because it is like

 ... call who? IT is the whole industry!!

But I see here it would be a reasonable statement. "The IT guys" or the "IT department".

Is this something cultural? Did I get the IT term wrong and it is actually "sys admin" only related?

Return to FAQ Index

I've found that in some fashion here the IT term is used as a synonym to technical support and sys admin:

From the FAQ:

... system administrators and IT professionals[;] people who
 manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity....

While I have conceived it as a larger area, that include of course technical support, but expands also to software development, software management, hardware, methodologies etc.

For me IT is like the whole brach of knowledge.

For instance, I wouldn't use the following:

 "Call IT"..

because it is like

 ... call who? IT is the whole industry!!

But I see here it would be a reasonable statement. "The IT guys" or the "IT department".

Is this something cultural? Did I get the IT term wrong and it is actually "sys admin" only related?

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I've found that in some fashion here the IT term is used as a synonym to technical support and sys admin:

From the FAQ:

... system administrators and IT professionals[;] people who
 manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity....

While I have conceived it as a larger area, that include of course technical support, but expands also to software development, software management, hardware, methodologies etc.

For me IT is like the whole brach of knowledge.

For instance, I wouldn't use the following:

 "Call IT"..

because it is like

 ... call who? IT is the whole industry!!

But I see here it would be a reasonable statement. "The IT guys" or the "IT department".

Is this something cultural? Did I get the IT term wrong and it is actually "sys admin" only related?

Return to FAQ Index