"If you're looking to hire a System Administrator to your healthcare organization, you might need to rethink your hiring guidelines and practices and hire a Linux System Administrator (SysAdmin). Few information technology professionals can appreciate the skill, knowledge and experience required to administer Linux servers and workstations."
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J. Antas
Though I am only lurking on the list, this might be an appropriate moment to come out of the closet. I have seen likewise articles before and find them somewhat baffling, because of two things:
a) I would fit the desciption of the above nicely; I have learnt most things on my own, both Linux/UNIX-wise and communication/security which now forms my main source of income. I don't see the amazing magic in saying "we want to bring in a new line of technology to benefit from it, maybe we should also staff and think of the resources needed to make this not go down the drain?". This goes for anything technical.
b) If you go to get your home energy problems solved by getting a heat exchanger, would you rather have someone that just happened to have a lot of nice dimplomas, certificates, etc. on their wall to do it, or someone that understand the issues and have a well formed opinions on how to solve it in a nice manner? This one also works for anything. Quality, at the end of the day, doesn't come from anything else than thefact that the people at the pointy end of it actually cares about what they do.
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