really? I might have watched too many Hollywood movies, but I have a feeling that many of the oil people are actually more hacker types than those coding drones

really? I might have watched too many Hollywood movies, but I have a feeling that many of the oil people are actually more hacker types than those coding drones at your Microsofts and Oracles... that's not to say that it's essential to their business, but there's a lot of low level creativity in many industries, not just IT.