On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 03:40:09PM -0400, Robert Brockway spake thusly: > Compare system administrator and network administrator. As far as I'm > concerned any senior sysadmin better be a networking guru but I've found > quite a wide variety of opinions on this topic, even among sysadmins.
They also need to have some level of programming chops. C is the traditional systems language and Perl/Python/language-du-jour are the traditional automation languages. I know a number of "system administrators" who can't program to save their lives. A disproportionate number of them are, unfortunately, Windows administrators. Although I know a couple of Linux guys who should probably be able to program more than they do. > This has been discussed on SAGE-AU recently. I'm not quite sure what do > to about - try to get the message out there and reclaim the term sysadmin > or accept that it now has a narrow meaning and find another term. We seem to have this issue of naming things a lot in our business. Nothing is ever simple it seems. What word to use often depends on your point of view and which side of the fence you are on. Virus/worm/trojan/malware Hacker/cracker Programmer/coder/scripter/code monkey Customer service associate/salesman/sales droid/sales weasel Free software/open source software The list is probably endless. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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