On Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:29:20 PM UTC-7, Volker Braun wrote: > > On Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:05:17 PM UTC+1, rjf wrote: > >> I think you badly underestimate the value of a skilled Microsoft Windows >> expert now and over the >> next decade or more. >> > > Well there will certainly be demand, somebody has to help the lucy ones > escape their vendor lock-in and provide continued maintenance for the truly > screwed. So presumably the value of a Windows admin will stay at about the > current state. That is, about 10k/year less than a Unix admin. That's still > not bad, but hardly what I would recommend to my students. >
Interesting perspective. Where did you get the $10k/year difference? You seem to think that Microsoft will just disappear. It would be a shame for the funding of the Microsoft-INRIA research program. There are, I think, some parts of the Windows ecosystem that are far superior to that on Linux, though I suppose one can, for $$ upgrade Linux. Two that I have encountered (at least as of a few years ago -- handwriting recognition and speech recognition) . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
