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____/ Rex Ballard on Saturday 13 September 2008 08:52 : \____
> On Sep 13, 7:18 am, jellybean stonerfish <stonerf...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:41:00 -0500, Ignoramus24794 wrote:
>> > On 2008-09-13, ray <r...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:21:54 -0500, Ignoramus24794 wrote:
>>
>> >>> We are migrating our application servers (running our own custom apps)
>> >>> from Windows to Linux. As the light in the tunnel is visible, and we
>> >>> went beyond 1/2 of work, here are some conclusions:
>>
>> >>> 1) We will be replacing roughly 80 Windows servers with approximately
>> >>> 15 Linux servers. We will probably use a few more Linux servers that
>> >>> would be for redundancy purposes only, and that will not be doing any
>> >>> actual work unless something breaks.
>>
>> >>> 2) Administering these machines is very highly automated and comes at
>> >>> zero "incremental cost of ownership" per machine. There are no admins
>> >>> walking around from machine to machine and being paid for repetitive
>> >>> actions.
>>
>> >>> 3) Administering those custom applications is also much easier under
>> >>> Linux due to much greater automation. No stupid Windows shit, like
>> >>> inability to delete a running executable, etc, interferes with system
>> >>> administration tasks.
>>
>> >> FWIW - before I retired a few years ago, I adminned out Linux systems.
>> >> Part time, as a collateral duty - took me on average about four hours
>> >> per month. There was also a full time IT guy who took care of the MS
>> >> machines - and that's all he did - but then he did have about four
>> >> times as many boxes to manage.
>>
>> > If I admined 10 times more machines, I would barely be doing any more
>> > work.
>>
>> Gnu/linux is for lazy people......!!!
>
> Yeah, but to alleviate the boredom, Linux administrators often assist
> development teams, or contribute to OSS projects.
...Or administer more machines, in which case they become more valuable and are
paid a lot more.
In Google they assign one engineer per 100 servers, IIRC.
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