Starting Point Can the Cio Be An Endangered Species? ; Information technologists might just engineer themselves out of their jobs.

The code-writing is on the screen.

Development of software is shifting to India, China and the Philippines.

Deployment also is moving out. PeopleSoft has announced the creation of an implementation lab in Bangalore, India, which will integrate software customers want, work out bugs and then send it on for installation. Dell and other systems makers increasingly install enterprise software on machines and test their operations at factories, before sending crews into the field to actually put servers and their desktop counterparts into place.

There's a burgeoning business as well in automating the information technology department. Web-browser wunderkind …