> 
> Yeah all those "Joe six-pack" PhDs running Google are definitely not
> "real IT/CS professionals". They are clearly not capable of "system
> engineering", with degrees not worth the paper they are printed on. I
> mean come on what kind of two bit organizations are these: CMU, MIT,
> Stanford, Caltech, etc. They sound like a bunch of of "hackers" making
> a mockery of the science of "systems engineering".
> 

That's exactly right, inspite of your sarcasm, it is true: they're PhDs, 
scientists, hackers, not engineers.
Academia always made for poor engineers, because they were out of touch with 
reality, out of touch of how things are done and run in the real world.

I remember when I was taking my advanced C programming course years ago: my 
teacher had completely different ideas about coding than what we were actually 
doing in the industry (I had already been working for a software company for a 
few years). And although she knew her stuff with respect to materia, it took 
several lectures by me to bring her up to speed on how things are done in the 
real world.

If we didn't face the academia problem today, we wouldn't even be having this 
discussion. There are no competent UNIX people coming out of academic 
institutions because the academia is incapable of educating them.

It's a disaster.

> Seriously though, Solaris admins have a horrible reputation among the
> open-source community. Some of the statements, are "arrogant",
> "unfriendly", and "closed-minded". (At least those Solaris Admins who
> haven't switched to Linux yet.)

I used to be a Linux system engineer. I would never do that again, and 
thankfully, because there is Solaris, I don't have to.

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