Going down the linux route ... IBM support RedHat, so look at RHEL or CentOS.
My choice would be Slackware or gentoo - not because they're better or worse distros, but because you learn a lot more dealing with their oddities. Slack is very BSD-oriented (or was), but is also very minimalist in its basic configuration. I make sure I've got a copy of Slack in my rescue kit because it's pretty much guaranteed to boot any hardware successfully - "live CD" distros normally don't like my hardware... Gentoo because, well, it's Gentoo. It compiles everything from source, it's a pain to update on occasion, I left the update running overnight last night because it takes so long... but you've got the source to everything, it's infinitely tweakable etc etc. I'd be inclined to spend some of those education dollars on a good PC. If you can afford it, make it a twin dual-core CPU. On that run RHEL/VMWare and UV/UD PE. Inside VMWare you can then run Windows, other linuxes, whatever. Play! Cheers, Wol -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garry Smith Sent: 19 August 2008 19:09 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [U2] What Next? XML, XSD, XSLT and CSS Then wrap all that into a VB/C# .net application and if your brain doesn't explode from looking at all the MS API's then take on either Redback/U2 WDE or SQL Admin, SQL and SQL reporting. Does anyone know who Joe Celko is? Or counter grain - Linux, PHP, Ruby, and the darkside at insecure.org (nmap - fydor - hacker) Garry L. Smith Dir Info Systems Charles McMurray Company V# 559-292-5782 F# 559-346-6169 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al DeWitt Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [U2] What Next? For the last 14 years or so I have been doing programming support and light DBA work; first in Universe (Prime Information) and now in Unidata (Pick). I'm basically a one-trick pony (UniBasic and System Builder) because my goal has always been to move into a business analyst role, but that has never worked out (I'm too IT). Last fall I decided to stop trying to pursue that and stay in what I'm doing. So now I need to decide what I should invest my educational dollars. I want to stay in application development and support because I like better than techie stuff. So what would you suggest I begin learning that would keep me reasonably employable in the future? Thanks. Albert DeWitt Sr. Programmer Analyst Stylmark, Inc. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
