[Info-vax] OT: Wrong technological decisions

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11-11-2010 20:30, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

Start with CentOS and become a "RHEL specialist".

Arne