[ale] [JOBS] Sr. Systems Administrator positions

[Jeff Hubbs]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jeffrey.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> As for what's in the description, it seems to me that if you are being
>> constrained to using Red Hat, the position isn't exactly "senior."  My
>> observation has been that RHEL shops take on many of the same
>> implementation and integration hassles as Windows shops...it wasn't so
>> much Windows per se that I sought to distance myself from a decade ago
>> as it was those hassles!
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> That is also an interesting situation. I have seen "RedHat Shops" do
> things the hard way because the easy/fast/best way is not an rpm that
> ships with RedHat. Fear of having to support a tool internally is a
> situation that hamstrings "single-vendor" organizations in any field.
>   
Yep.  What I hear from time to time is that RHEL got bought in order to 
run some app in a "supported configuration."  My response to that is 
that the wrong party blinked.  Again, it's a closed-source-world way of 
working.  I would say to an app vendor, why isn't your app cut cleanly 
enough away from OS that it really doesn't matter what I run it under as 
long as some basic library/language/etc. version constraints are met?  
Why am I paying you money to not just give me use of your app but also 
to take away my implementation freedom and increase my support costs and 
admin overhead?