Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think the age of the generalist systems administrator is pretty much dead, at least in organizations of sufficient size or complexity.
Of course, having degraded from a generalist systems admin to a security admin might have biased that opinion. Tracy Reed wrote: > 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. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lopsa.org > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- -- John E. Jasen (jja...@realityfailure.org) -- "Deserve Victory." -- Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
