[Info-vax] OT: Wrong technological decisions

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 06-11-2010 09:03, JF Mezei wrote:
> 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.

Job wise Linux is not a bad choice.

Arne