Comments on: How many Fortune 25 companies does it take to change a light bulb?

By: Dave Farquhar

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:33:11 +0000

In reply to Timothy. Me neither. Service can get tricky because there's really no way to avoid having to support your competitors' stuff from time to time. I haven't seen a shop that even tried to be homogenous since the 1990s, and even those shops eventually stopped fighting it because they found they couldn't do it.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:38:33 +0000

When I was starting my sysadmin career, one of the books I had said there are three broad types of Unix. BSD style, System V style, and AIX. And that AIX stood for “Ain’t Unix”. So I don’t blame the HP guy for not knowing what needed to be done.