[Info-vax] OT: Wrong technological decisions

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In article <4cd5523c$0$23989$c3e8da3$9b4ff22a at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>I seem to be a great selector if platforms.... Every choice I have made
>in my life as turned out to be the wrong decision.
>
>Started off with an early MacPlus. Then, Apple went downhill.
>Then, I chose the up and coming Digital. Big time into it. We all knwo
>where this went.
>
>I also chose PSION PDAs. great devices with real multitasking on a 80286
>in early 1990s. PSION got affraid of Microsoft and abandonned the market
>(after having totally rewritten the OS and giving it to Nokia who
>rebranded it "Symbian").
>
>With the demise of VMS, I chose to return to Apple which is now the new
>"up and coming".
>
>Yesterday, Apple announces they are pulling out of the server market.
>They pretend they will continue to develop OS-X Server to be installed
>on MacMinis and the desktop MacPros. (both of which lacks data centre
>features such as LOM (which even the DS10L had). That development wil be
>slowed to a crawl for sure.
>
>I guess that leaves Linux as the one viable solution. At least migrating
>from one unix to another won't be as painful. But just as I started to
>get confortable with OS-X server and all its implementation details, I
>now need to stop this and focus on develooping marketable skills.
>
>Perhaps flipping burgers at McDonalds is't so bad after all.

Well, with a track record like that, it's a good thing we don't follow
you for political advice! :P

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