[snip] I'm not so sure it's an entirely horrible idea for a university to focus on one area over another. I went to art school - so I'm sure I'll be burned at the stake for having comments :P But a great deal of my friends who took comp sci or comp eng in uni are greatly unemployed - why you ask? Their school taught them how to use, program in, administer, and setup Linux Red Hat 7.3, then 8.0, and they just got a glimpse of 9.0 before graduation ... cool right? Funny thing is that a surprising number of businesses and corporations would much rather you be proficient in some manner of Microsoft product - the reason? If it breaks there's someone you can call for help. [/snip]
I am thankful that I work in an "open-source" shop! Having said that.... I think that there are more (based on my experience) "mixed" environments...and even if we are an open-source environment M$ runs on the desktops because corporate is comfortable with that. Those of us in technical operations are expected to have a certain level of proficiency in both environments. It would be my guess that there are lots of organizations similarly configured....*nix based servers, open-source DBs, etc connected to desktops running all varieties of M$ products. Now, running these things side-by-side gives us a tremendous amount of perspective, the strengths and weaknesses readily discernable for each of the environments involved. The key is to learn how to flex the muscle of each so that the collaborative environment is as strong and efficient as possible. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
