Recruiting agencies are notorious for years of experience, because that
seems to be a benchmark for them in determining a person's qualifications.
The best defense I've found against YOE is fuzzy math ;)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Harrop [mailto:don@nis4u.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 8:37 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: What Unix differences? :-)
>
>
> All the Unicies share a lot in common. Most of my background is with
> Linux flavors but recently I've been interviewing for a job
> as an HP-UX
> admin so I've been playing around with it to see the differences. Not
> many in my opinion. Why people are demanding 3+ years
> experience in any
> specific flavor of Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, whatever) just seems
> stupid to me. They're not THAT different.
>
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jose Castillo wrote:
>
> > There really isn't much to it. Solaris and Linux share ALOT
> in common when
> > it comes to basic UNIX. Still, it is good to have Solaris
> on your box, as
> > there are many things in Solaris that are different on
> Linux. ie Disksuite,
> > Admintool, SAF, etc...
> >
> > On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 17:58:45 -0700,
> plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > wrote:
> >
> > > > I have yet another opening for up to three Unix
> Administrators with
> > the
> > >
> > > Wow, seems Solaris is definitly in severe demand. I just
> may order
> > > that copy of Solaris X86 afterall, I have two machines
> here, learning
> > > to get Solaris interoperating with Linux smoothly would
> probably be an
> > > additional plus, right?
> > >
> > > --
> > > jkenner @ mindspring . com__
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> > >
>
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