[ale] IBM is buying Redhat!

[Simba]

What is it that you believe "scaling" is?

It's hiring people and buying equipment.

I personally have the experience and skills and knowledge required to do
it. I'm not saying everyone does, but I do, and I know for a fact
there's thousands of equally capable folks sprinkled all over this great
nation.

Seriously man are you trolling or what? Do you think that the world is
sitting still in some kind of perpetual stasis? You think people can't
be hired, or change employment, based on the conditions in the
marketplace? I'm trying to say your lack of understanding on this
boggles my mind.

The job market is in constant flux. People are always shifting around to
meet the needs of the moment. People gain experience and move up their
career ladders, and they're replaced by fresh meat out of high school
and college.. and this is going on all the time, every day. It's going
on right now, as we're having this conversation.

How do you think anything gets done? It's not magic, it's billions of
tiny shifting cogs.

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On 10/29/18 9:27 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 09:11:06AM -0400, Simba via Ale wrote:
>> Yes! Are you kidding? That's my profession, I could hope to be so lucky
>> as to land a contract like that. I'd be set for years.
> 
> Are you capable of scaling to handle a client with thousands of 
> widely disparate users and systems?  With what kind of SLA?
> 
> Meanwhile, the DoD is several *million* users & systems, and operates in 
> environments where stuff working (or not) determine if our people 
> (or theirs) die.
> 
>> I think maybe you don't understand how American capitalism works :)
> 
> Right back at ya.  :)
> 
>> SELinux is overrated, Debian has something similar, and also SELinux can
>> be installed on Debian, however my experience with that is limited so I
>> can't speak on it.
> 
> Be careful, "overrated" or not, it's still a hard customer requirement.  
> 
> Folks go to jail (or get shot!) for trying to do things SELinux that is 
> intended to prevent.  The DoD takes data security *very* seriously.
> 
>  - Solomon
>