Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:03:59 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: kcv@hallkinion.com Cc: jobs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Job for Sr Linux Sys Admin with NT, Oracle and Masters Degree Message-ID: <200208281603.g7SG3xup026351@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <sd6c8e66.055@smtp.hallkinion.com>
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>Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:48:29 -0700 >From: "Kirk Vorsatz" <kcv@hallkinion.com> >I have been recruiting for a very long time. You can see from my = >signature that I have been a top performer for several years at Hall = >kinion......let me explain to you the importance of the Master's degree to = >this position..... Indeed...? >The company is a 15 year old financial company that has the #1 debt = >collateralization product in the Stock Trading industry. There location = >here in CA has roughly 20 people with at least 12+ developers that have = >Masters of PHD's in Mathematics.... the company is ran from a development = >point of view. Development has never held much regard for anyone in IT- = >there philosophy is if it works that is all that matters. Rather than = >have there database run optimally they would rather by new boxes. They = >are using EXE as the backup. The reason for the Master's degree is to = >help gain the respect of these developers as well as someone with a = >Master's will understand IT issues from the developers perspective. Many of the colleagues with whom I have worked had PhDs; in particular, with several of the developers at Whistle (both before and after its acquisition by IBM). I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to believe that any of them failed to respect me -- nor did I fail to respect them. Further, my background is in computer science; I have done development; indeed, I tend to be rather more interested in being sure that the theoretical underpinnings of systems I build are solid than a fair proportion of others I have encountered in my career (and I'm not merely referring to PHBs, either). >Running NT on the Desktop is only part of the position. The challenge is = >rearchitecting a 24X7 Linux Oracle environment that already exists and = >works today while explaining to the developers that a system in their eyes = >that works is not optimal in the future. I welcome your remarks..... I will not even try to support a Microsoft product; it is -- as far as I am concerned -- an utter waste of time and other resources. Relying on such a thing as part of a system that is intended to behave reliably is akin to trusting that a structure made of known-defective materials will not collapse unexpectedly. Cheers, david (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david) -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org To paraphrase David Hilbert, there can be no conflicts between the discipline of systems administration and Microsoft, since they have nothing in common. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-jobs" in the body of the message
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