David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com writes:
2)And how much does it cost to employ a MSCE certified tech to run the NT servers which need more care than a *nix box?
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.
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.
Wait until they get sued for the mental anguish of 2k/NT admins ;-)
I've been doing some UI work again (cue flame from Brett) and I'm quite happy with the results so far, if I do say so myself. Anyone else out there tried ROX, http://rox.sourceforge.net/, yet? At last someone's taking the good ideas from RISCOS.
Nothing is provable except logic. Everything else just gathers empirical evidence until it is disproved.
On 21 Jun 2001, MJ Ray wrote:
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 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
Adam Bower wrote:
so you are responsible for getting NT installed at Zeus !!! aarrgghh traitor, burn him, throw him off the list ;)...
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Neill Newman wrote:
so you are responsible for getting NT installed at Zeus !!! aarrgghh traitor, burn him, throw him off the list ;)...
Not guilty gov, The Accounts package we purchased only runs on a M$ SQL server, and the system itself also requires a NT box to run on and a Citrix Metaframe server and the resplendent amount of other packages to add to the mix just to get a working NT enviroment.
I did protest that it would be crap, but I was forced (at gunpoint) to install everything and make it work. What I find interesting though is these NT servers hardly ever fall over, I think the quality of the admin goes a very long way with NT. I remember that most of the things I learnt in anticipation of the M$ exams I didn't need. To be honest a Monkey could pass the exams if you gave him a couple of days in a boot camp!
Adam
I find that the occasional reboot on NT helps to keep things a bit more stable.
FWIW.
Mark W.
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