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	Rex Ballard - Director of Electronic Distribution
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On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Anthony D. Tribelli wrote:

> James Seymour (jseymour@medar.com) wrote:
> : >: ... SysAdmins cost money.  And they're scarce...
> : >
> : >True for UNIX system administrators, but the large number of people 
> : >administering current DOS/Win3.1 networks could transition to WinNT 
> : >without much difficulty.
> 
> : Then how do you explain the Ms-WinNT schools? ...
> 
> It's one of the ways that the DOS/Win3.1 administrators are transitioning. 
> Basically I'm arguing that it may be easier to find people capable of 
> administering a WinNT environment than it is to find people capable of 
> administering a UNIX environment. The UNIX administrator situation may 
> not carry over to the WinNT situation.

Most Unix administrators double as "Fire Fighters" for the development
team.  A good Unix SysAdmin gets called in early in the development cycle
and starts pointing the development team at the tools they can use to
forshorten the development time.  The actual system operations, and
"statistics management" is fairly pushbutton simple.  Companies are
willing to pay manager saleries for SysAdmins because they get value from
the investment.

> Tony
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> Tony Tribelli
> adtribelli@acm.org
> 
> 
	Rex Ballard



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