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[PLUG] Re: PLUG digest, Vol 1 #754 - 13 msgs
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> Mainframe is experiencing something of a rennaissance and is fairly easy to
> get into. CIGNA, for instance, is looking at a good percentage of its
> mainframe expertise retiring in the next five years or so, an no one to
> replace them. If I were able to choose my path today, I'd get all the skinny
> on mainframe (both S/390 and Linux) I could as fast as I could. (Mainframe
> also pays better than NT too).
I think both UNIX and mainframe pay better than NT. I did a little m/f at
my last position. Enough to know it's a bit harder than UNIX. I am facinated
by IBM's use of Linux on m/f....and the fact that they're using linux on
m/f to win contracts!! I would love to see Linux working on m/f...an
install somewhere. I think, rather than trying to learn Linux at the midrange
computing level AND at the m/f computing level, the midrange is probably a
good place to start.
> > I would like to study a lot more about Linux, but am afraid that I will
> > be losing time if this doesn't help me in the job market in the same way
> > of NT would. I will have to do *some* NT at some stage.....
>
> You've got it backwards. With Linux, there's no need to ever stop learning
> more and more. NT is a dead end, technologically speaking. You'd be wasting
> your time, especially since Linux deployments far out pace Win2K deployments
> at the moment.
Really?? I know Linux is doing well at the internet server front, and IBM
seems to be using Linux to sell m/fs, but where else is Linux leading at the
moment? I would like to see Linux doing better than I see it doing....it's
a good M$ basher!
>
> > I'm also assuming that if I study Linux, the employers will look on it
> > as a UNIX clone knowledge if UNIX background is sought. Is this
> > realistic?
>
> In my situation, my experience at home with Linux helped me get a Unix job.
> I told them about how I built my network, firewall, Samba server, etc. Linux
> will definitely help you out there.
As I thought; using free linux s/w at home helps ready one for the marketplace.
It's great to have free software to practice on!
BTW, I'm using VMware's Samba, which from what I've seen and read about the
normal Samba, VMware's version is a slightly different beast from the real
thing. If I want to learn "the Samba package", do I need to learn to non-
VMware thing?
> I hate to see anyone who wants to do Linux or Unix think they have to start
> with Windows. That's not the case at all. If I had it to do all over again,
> I'd learn Linux first. windows got me in the door, but it was a hard habit
> to break (like heroin). It would have been much easier to do what I really
> wanted to first than it was to switch.
That's all I wanted to hear to dive into Linux training. Thanks for the
feedback.
Please all take this reply of mine as a BIG THANKYOU for all the advise you gave
me re Linux vs NT training. I think I was probably asking a groups of guys
with a one-sided opinion, but you have a knowledge of the Linux/UNIX industry
that I dont' have and needed. Based on the feedback, it looks like I need
to get stuck into the LPI exams.....
I haven't mentioned previously, but I'm in Philly looking for sponsored work
using whatever someone will be willing to sponsor me to do....Novell or Linux
or whatever. I wondered if PLUG members are open to having a look at my resume
and giving me feedback...both on whether the resume can be better put together
and whether it is good enough to win a sponsored position in Philly. I'm in
Philly to be with my girlfriend, thus looking for a way to work here.
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