> And you know, the world doesn't revolve around over > paid UNIX admins > with craniums that reach to the ceilings. The vast > majority of companies > out there are small to medium size, less than 100 > people with servers > being maintained by someone who has an IT > qualification from their local > polytechnic.
Actually such persons cost the poor small to midsize company *more* money in "fires put out", constant "break-fix" mode, total chaos and ad-hoc "administration" than it would have cost to put one single guy in who knew what he was doing and was paid accordingly. I should know, having experienced how a small company does "day to day administration" once upon a time. Not an experience I care to repeat. Ever again. > Making it easy to install and maintain lowers the > bar, ups the sales by > Sun in both hardware and software - all benefit from > this. Microsoft > didn't grab a huge marketshare because of Bills > sparkling personality - > I can bloody well assure you of that! If the bar needs to be lowered, then the person in question wasn't meant to be in IT or in CS. We have pah-lenty of such "experts" floating around. They should go do something else, there are also pah-lenty of other well paid jobs in other fields. For example, car body repair. They make tons of money. In computer science, "lowering the bar" is also known as regression. And let me remind you my friend, Solaris wouldn't be what it is today if the bar had been lowered. Luckily for all of us and tons of customers. > Yes, and Sun and Ellison have been hammering on the > same garbage for 10+ > years and hasnn't eventuated into anything. Don't lose focus. It's the concept that's important. The problem lies with the majority. Historia est magistra vitae - "history is the teacher of life" - and history teaches us that majority is stupid. If humanity were left to majority, we would still be living somewhere in the stone age. It's the individuals that have historically always pushed the whole of Humanity forward, which, let us not forget, kicked, screamed, and even hanged and burned people at stakes for trying to usher them into a new age of mankind. So it looks like the majority will have to be dragged into a new computing age once again. Kicking and screaming, as usual. Why am I not surprised? > Again, this is the same garbage spewed by Sun and > Ellison for 10+ years, > and again, nothing has happened. People are still > running PC's, Of course they are. Most of the people on this planet are computer illiterate, and actually want nothing to do with a computer. But they sure expect a lot from one! This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
