I had a similar choice to make late last year. Having the opportunity to leave a secure SysAdmin job in the private sector to work for a large un-named university was a big decision, but the perks (relaxed dress, higher pay, "big city" employment, advancement opportunities, etc.) came at a big price. After so many years in a "business" atmosphere, I found out that there was no way I was going to be able to cope in the relaxed (almost lazy) environment at the university. It took a whopping two days (oh and a promotion at my old firm) for me to decide to go back.
Besides that, the position was really gonna suck.
My only lesson from this was, the grass ain't always greener.
Maybe not a good lesson for the original poster of the thread, but perhaps to the rest.
I think Dvorak is still missing the boat on what Linux and the free unixes are supposed to stand for. An alternative option versus having your choices dictated to you. I'll agree that Linux has some difficulty standing up to huge amounts of simultaneous connections, but you can't even compare the stability of a default install Linux box with a "tweaked/nudged/doctored" NT box. Look at Walnut Creek for pete's sake... Over a GB a day goes out of that place and FreeBSD has been chugging along on it for years.
As for the $199 box, don't most of those include the wonderful WinModem? Last time I checked those things weren't worth the copper on the board...
I bet 90% of the reason behind this is so m$ can develop client-server DB applications that require OC-12 connections or higher...
Seriously though... It'seems strange that a corporation that really has very little to do with networking of any type, much less high-cap WAN links is permitted to get involved in a project that was conceived and designed exclusively for reasearch and development between universities...
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I had a similar choice to make late last year. Having the opportunity to leave a secure SysAdmin job in the private sector to work for a large un-named university was a big decision, but the perks (relaxed dress, higher pay, "big city" employment, advancement opportunities, etc.) came at a big price. After so many years in a "business" atmosphere, I found out that there was no way I was going to be able to cope in the relaxed (almost lazy) environment at the university. It took a whopping two days (oh and a promotion at my old firm) for me to decide to go back.
Besides that, the position was really gonna suck.
My only lesson from this was, the grass ain't always greener.
Maybe not a good lesson for the original poster of the thread, but perhaps to the rest.
Anyway, sorry for the interruption.
I think Dvorak is still missing the boat on what Linux and the free unixes are supposed to stand for. An alternative option versus having your choices dictated to you. I'll agree that Linux has some difficulty standing up to huge amounts of simultaneous connections, but you can't even compare the stability of a default install Linux box with a "tweaked/nudged/doctored" NT box. Look at Walnut Creek for pete's sake... Over a GB a day goes out of that place and FreeBSD has been chugging along on it for years.
As for the $199 box, don't most of those include the wonderful WinModem? Last time I checked those things weren't worth the copper on the board...
I bet 90% of the reason behind this is so m$ can develop client-server DB applications that require OC-12 connections or higher...
Seriously though... It'seems strange that a corporation that really has very little to do with networking of any type, much less high-cap WAN links is permitted to get involved in a project that was conceived and designed exclusively for reasearch and development between universities...