From the article:
N.B. Emphasis mine...

I could be going out on a limb here but; if you can't script, at least to a basic level you're not a sysadmin?

As for the rest of the article:

• 'Sys admins are being outsourced' - to who? Someone still doing the work
• Web design:'DIY tools eliminating need for experts' - really? (although this does explain a lot of the cruft....
• Datacenter specialists: This is my bread and butter, no let-up in demand here from the trenches
• repair technicians - True from an end user device perspective, but lets see you replace a blade-centre/SAN/etc. for less than the repair costs...

who writes this junk?

It's very simple. Here's how it goes in IT:

Something is hot in IT and word go out to the sales people of IT consultancy firms that they can't find XYZ profile.

In India, 100.000 of people study for that XYZ profile because that's what the customers of the Indian IT people are asking.

6 months later everything is OK and the world is overbid on the XYZ profile and India is waiting what the customer wants next.

Why ?