On 21 Jun 2001, MJ Ray wrote:
Amen. Sadly it seems to mean the nux admins are losing permanent jobs again, though. Maybe that's just what I'm seeing, or maybe we're about to have a resurgence where they *stop* employing busloads of NT/2k admins to patch that service together and employ nux admins to roll out a stable service.
Interesting you say this, I actually was (ok I admit don't hurt me) a Microsoft Certified person, and the certification got me exactly zero jobs! Everyone who wanted to employ me saw that I knew a little Unix. The police employed me when I had 6months unix exp as they couldn't find anyone who knew *nix, and then Zeus employed me 3 months later as a unix sysadmin (yeah I know I also look after the NT servers at work but they didn't exist until I had been at Zeus for a couple of months).
The M$ certs cost me probably around a couple of grand to get and did absolutely no good for me, being a member of the Alug is what got me the job for Zeus as they guessed I was an enthusiast (I did have to pass some test things also)
Oh yeah and no need to worry now, my M$ certification has lapsed.
I thought EPoS had a few options (some commercial) on Linux now,
including those used by some large chains. The details elude me, as it's not something I have much of an interest in just now, so I don't pay much attention to it.
I was of the opinion that the EPOS market consisted of Unix terminals, AS400, and MS-Dos (I believe that Dos still sells something like 100,000 units a quarter in the UK just to support Epos terminals and factory control machines).
Adam