Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 24th May 2007 20:59 UTC
"Those in search of eternal life need look no further than the computer industry. Here, last gasps are rarely taken, as aging systems crank away in back rooms across the U.S., not unlike 1970s reruns on Nickelodeon's TV Land. So while it may not be exactly easy for Novell NetWare engineers and OS/2 administrators to find employers who require their services, it's very difficult to declare these skills -- or any computer skill, really -- dead." My Take: "C" dying should have been "x86 Assembly".
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And what is up with the "PC administrator" details? What definition is being used? Every systems administator I've seen has had to build machines from scratch, including component installation, OS & software installation & configuration, etc, etc. Just because you have an MCSE doesn't mean you know how to install a device driver or copy a file from one drive to another, or know what FTP is.
While that is correct, and I generally agree with you, having gone through the MCSE cert (years after already being in the biz, just to get the "piece of paper") I assure you MCSE's know what FTP is if they passed the test, and would certainly be competent installing and configuring software, as well as copying files.
I understand your opinion, but don't heavily discount the MCSE cert. It does greatly assist in making sense of the Microshaft Madness!
So, please, if you are going to write an article lambasting technologies you don't read about in industry magazines anymore, at least do some of your own research so you don't come off looking like an ignorant beginner who just passed their MCSE.
Agreed; I don't see systems administrators the way I know them (and am one) going away anytime soon, especially given the state of both Windows server and client environments, and certainly not Linux, which is still feared in the 3 industries I've worked in so far (banking auxiliary services, legal, environmental).
When you've got Exchange patches breaking how Blackberry Server works, and a rogue Windows Update patch whacking svchost.exe all the way to 100% effectively taking down a workstation, who are you going to call? Joe User?
Windows (both client and server) work great, but are both volatile enough for the foreseeable future that nothing's going to be a plug and play networking environment. Surely the author meant something different, though he wasn't able to get that across in this poorly written article.