OT? Are they really teaching this?

[James Mcphee]

Funnily, the basis of NT, VMS, was designed for exactly that reason and mad
that exact promise =D  Well, to replace unix.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:22 PM, George Toft <george at georgetoft.com> wrote:

> When I was in Graduate School, one of the instructors said Windows NT was
> going to make Linux obsolete in 2 years.  That was 17 years ago.  I don't
> put much credibility in college instructor predictions :)
>
> Regards,
>
> George Toft
>
>
> On 5/24/2015 4:23 PM, parabellum7 at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Yesterday, I met an individual going to ITT. We discussed our respective
>> areas of study and goals. Personally, I have a strong interest in Open
>> Source and Wireless. I'm also doing a CompTIA Network+ prep course through
>> the Maricopa County Library. It's free if you have a library card and a
>> wealth of info regardless if you're going to get that cert or not. He
>> claims his instructors say any of the CompTIA certs are worthless. He also
>> says he actually 'hates open source' and his instructors are telling him
>> it's a 'dead-ender'. That pretty much left me speechless.
>>
>>
>> I know I'm preaching to the choir on this part, but much of the web and
>> cloud runs on 'nix and it seems to be the preferred services offered. I've
>> read multiple articles that many big outfits are migrating to Open Source.
>> Major manufacturers are selling machines with 'nix as an option and guess
>> what Google uses in their data centers? Even consumer grade routers say
>> 'Open Source Ready' on the box and the fine print says they're compatible
>> with DD-WRT. Oh, and then there's that whole Android thing.
>>
>>
>> Are they really teaching those attitudes? Or maybe this individual is
>> confused. Is it even possible to get into the big-leagues of networking
>> without needing to know Open Source OS & apps?
>>
>>
>>
>> -K
>>
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