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The Days of SysAdmin Numbered?
gmkeegan writes "The Economist is running a story about Sun's new N1 operating system whose purpose is to make today's system administrators redundant. The idea is to virtualize the computer system so that the automated resource management software can add, remove and manage everything dynamically. The article mentions similar efforts by IBM, HP, and Microsoft."
Unless you are an H1-B they are still numbered.
Companies are laying off US programmers so they can get slave labor (H1-Bs).
Unfair to the US worker, AND unfair to the H1-B, who is made to do anything the employer wants (like work 100 hour weeks for $10/hour) or risk getting fired and deported.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
Yeah, I noticed that. When Slashdot calls itself "News for Nerds," it's an in-joke. When a non-tech magazine uses it like that, it's a slur. There's another word that starts with "n" that gets used in a similar manner. This surprises me coming from The Economist, since that's a very high-quality publication that usually has better standards. Maybe the writer was having a bad day.
In any case, there's no need for revenge; as numerous other posters have pointed out, any PHB who takes this article (and the N1's promises) too seriously will soon pay the price.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.