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Screw Sun
Screw Sun
Posted Jul 31, 2003 17:59 UTC (Thu) by JohnBell (subscriber, #12625)In reply to: Screw Sun by fx
Parent article: Sun Sees Road To Prosperity Paved With Its Own Products (TechWeb)
Mars was great, I highly recommend the skiing ;-).
Belgium, eh? Nice place. I enjoy Europe in general. I usually head for Germany (Bavaria) or Austria, however (family on my wife's side).
Just as another data point, I myself have made a killing working on Linux and Linux-based projects. I guess good work is where you find it. My current job is to wrangle a large Linux and FreeBSD farm, using things like Oracle 9i RAC on Linux, supporting multi-tier web apps, etc.
I do enjoy my job, very much, as I am sure you do yours. Let's not kid ourselves that there is no money to made in Linux, however. Especially supporting it. IBM has already proven that it can be done, and companies are scrambling madly for the technology. Linux is here to stay, and it's going to make a lot of people very well off.
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Screw Sun
Posted Jul 31, 2003 18:38 UTC (Thu) by fx (guest, #12077) [Link]
The day Linux starts powering some real databases in the various datacenters in Brussels I'll be going back to Linux. For the moment, the HP-UX/Solaris market is just infinitely bigger here. Even a dead-end OS like Tru64 is generating more business. Sad but true.The company I work for now is migrating some NT web servers to Linux, but that's peanuts to what they've got running on HP-UX.