exciting and glamourous job descriptionminouetteNovember 6 2006, 17:36:03 UTC
So, how many readers have the slightest clue what that meant, I wonder? I mean, I totally understand what it means to be a "nobody knows what s/he does" person and have tried to explain what I do on a daily basis. I understood the post, at least in principle, but I don't know what a LDAP is... and I'm thinking that the friends we have in common might not even know what a Unix box is.
So, a nerdy question for you: is Unix going the way of the dodo? When the last Unix box here died, they didn't replace it. They figure they can set-up a PC cluster running Linux for less money. It used to be that we wouldn't even consider running code on PC's since we didn't want to wait a year to get an answer... but memory's cheap these days.
Dead and/or dying...mujalumboNovember 7 2006, 01:03:20 UTC
for what, 20 years now? Certainly the combination of cheap hardware and reliable OS is bound to eat into the Unix's marketshare. OK, well, it already has. But, there's always going to be Linux or M$ zealouts claiming Unix is "dead" or "dying." Yet, as of a couple of years ago, CIBC and BNC were still developing and hosting financial apps on Unix boxes.
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So, a nerdy question for you: is Unix going the way of the dodo? When the last Unix box here died, they didn't replace it. They figure they can set-up a PC cluster running Linux for less money. It used to be that we wouldn't even consider running code on PC's since we didn't want to wait a year to get an answer... but memory's cheap these days.
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Certainly the combination of cheap hardware and reliable OS is bound to eat into the Unix's marketshare. OK, well, it already has. But, there's always going to be Linux or M$ zealouts claiming Unix is "dead" or "dying." Yet, as of a couple of years ago, CIBC and BNC were still developing and hosting financial apps on Unix boxes.
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