Is Software Development a Part of IT

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Published on 2010-03-19T19:53:19Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 20:01 UTC
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I am not sure if this question is in the scope of SO, but I will ask anyway...

I am currently going to school, majoring in Computer Science. Often I overhear students in the Management of Information Systems major call themselves programmers. These comments make me angry for a few reasons:

They seem to trivialize what I do.
Most of them are not even capable of doing what I can do.

To me, MIS is IT and the are technicians and software developers are engineers and are not IT. So I guess my question is,

Is software development part of IT? I often see them lumped together.

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