I'm seriously thinking that Solaris is where I should start looking Just be aware of their HCL issues(The sun4m Issue), and you should be fine.
But I'd like to know of other options. Look towards whomever can keep hardware documented the longest, imho. If not for the expensive hardware, and it's relative non-openness, I'd say AIX for those "hard with knockoff hardware" tasks.
But what you find out about India or China is that people there are just like people over here: There's a few great programmers, and a lot of crappy ones. And when you factor in the cost of having multiple sites, training people, high turnover, etc, you find out that the promised cost savings just isn't there.. BUT, you also find out that, hey, there's some good coders over there, too, that are worth employing. Right now, I'm working in the US as a software engineer at a major telecom with offices in the US and India and all over the rest of the world, and what has settled out is this: India and China are not going to consume all the programming jobs and destroy programming in the US. They are, however, a source of talent and here to stay.
Offshoring as a way to find new talent and staff projects that need staffing is here to stay. Or one can just find a regulation that tax credits a US citizen, penalizes the current FTA countries, and the most you'll get is something manageable(state-state).
See, the thing is, programming and manufacturing are different. There's a much lower barrier to entry for coding, and it's easier to move work off-shore, and also easier to move stuff back. Well-crafted regulation keeps it here, where it should have been in the first place.
What you had in the first part of this decade was a cash crunch among companies, and it was fashionable to try to show the shareholders that you were doing something about it by firing US engineers and moving the jobs to China or India. The only boom that made being a citizen a penalty for all the wrong reasons. There's a good chance that will be corrected to being "not a citizen", where a citizen can get education towards their field of interest w/o the huge debt, and be able to make cost-free transitions if needed.
This whole offshoring thing is overblown for several reasons. For one, all the good Indian engineers are hired already, and companies have discovered that near-shoring or local hiring has certain advantages. Like everything else, the pendulum swings and it moves into balance. Good luck to all who are starting out and don't let market conditions get you down; just get out there and pound the pavement and make your career happen. There are too many people in the US who have seen it burn down to even give that concept a chance, thankfully.
...and complaining about how the American software market "sucks" and get on top of the technology and pick up some useful skills. Write a nice interactive website for your church or school pro bono, teach, write some open source software and get your name up on sourceforge.net. It's not that hard; it's called good old fashioned true grit. If you can demonstrate to companies that you are worth something to them, believe me you'll get hired. It also helps to join professional societies and show up at meetings; you develop leadership skills, you build up a network of colleagues, and long term it will pay off in job referrals. That still is not justification for running the industry into the ground. Have education become universal admit for citizens, doubly so for citizens in manufacturing regions - then you might have a point.
Meaning, outsource is here to stay That problem can be removed, and if we'd just pour a ton into education (putting a barrier to education does not help).
On the other hand, to use a phrase popularized when NAFTA was coming on line, if you do the work of a Mexican peasant, you get the pay of a Mexican peasant. Keep your skills current, demand to be put in front of customers at least a few times per year, and stay in touch with the field and you'll have no problems. Retire in place and you retire as a Mexican peasant. However, that does not give businesses the ability to act on terms of $DEITY, and cut out the US worker. Thankfully there won't be a long time until businesses start feeling the thunderbolts.
It's a business decision and intelligent business decisions factor in all of the costs. Regulation can fix affect that one, and thankfully it has a good chance of telling businesses that their free job exportation will soon come to a close.
Sounds like a copypasta from somewhere, but...
It doesn't help too that many Americans view things like health care as their God-given right Then why do corporations wish to act as if the world was theirs to shape as if they were God?
Eastern Europe is a very good example ...of letting the corporations act like God, save for one country that had some bravery to stand up to such trickery.
GM, for example, has about $1,500/car in expenses just for health care that it has to pay for its union workers, many of whom haven't gotten the memo: most corporate employees don't get these benefits, why should they? Apparently you haven't gotten the memo about all that government sponsorship in Japan. The only things the UAW forgot to do was to close the "Made in US from Japanese design/parts" loophole and repeal Taft-Hartley(unlikely under President PATCO(Reagan)).
Deregulation, a simplified tax code and making people pay their own way are the only things that will make America able to compete with these leaner, cheaper countries. Tariffs would do the same thing, without lowering quality. Now if you want to remove Taft-Hartley and stop trying to kill quality goods, then we can talk. Until then, stop shoving I4 coffins and shoddy electronics into the US until people want them out of boredom.
Well, this gives yet another meaning to the phrase "Security Theater" given that all that investment on keeping APEC from the public being defeated by a few creative actors.
The future is forward, not reverse Fair enough.
Solaris isn't looking to court the computer museum curators of the world. Well, to your credit, that's close to the official line Sun gives. However, (the supported side of) the 32/64bit line does include machines like the the long-EOL'd Ultra 2 that of all irony, still have sbus/UPA in them.
Other platforms are a bit less arbitrary on such stuff (IBM for example) and at least have their older non-x86 platforms well-covered(yes, they're killing everything short of POWER4 in AIX 6, but you can take the rest of the hardware with you). Even SGI hasn't fully killed off their long-dying MIPS machines (you might not be able to get them direct for any reasonable amount, but a good deal of them may even have a longer support lifespan than IBM).
There's something that Linux, and some of the BSD's have that Sun insists on not having - a wide range of hardware support. Sure, it's not going to run on the Sun3 easily, but non-Ultra sun4's that can take the load aren't beholden to bmc giving them the HCL blessing.
Given their haphazard application of their HCL (sun4m - need I say more) and the cutting out of perfectly usable sparcstations (no dtrace and crippled KCF is fine enough tyvm), it's left a sour bit in more than just a few.
"The new feature unveiled Friday is called 'duplicate detection,' which lets Google News identify the original source of a story that may appear in tens or hundreds of news outlet Web sites. If the source is AFP, would they just be considered a duplicate out of spite?
"sorry man, I fucked up, my mistake" "oh, ok, shit happens, have a good day, watch it next time" and simply get on with your life? When businesses started feeling like they were $DEITY by writing arbitrary customers as "acceptable losses".
Number of people directly abused or killed by Google - 0 Apparently you forgot China. That turns things to Google, Yahoo, and others having a not-so-small, nonzero number.
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Or for the other one:
"When the time is ri-PC Load Letter" when it was supposed to be the "right time".
...and complaining about how the American software market "sucks" and get on top of the technology and pick up some useful skills. Write a nice interactive website for your church or school pro bono, teach, write some open source software and get your name up on sourceforge.net. It's not that hard; it's called good old fashioned true grit. If you can demonstrate to companies that you are worth something to them, believe me you'll get hired. It also helps to join professional societies and show up at meetings; you develop leadership skills, you build up a network of colleagues, and long term it will pay off in job referrals. That still is not justification for running the industry into the ground. Have education become universal admit for citizens, doubly so for citizens in manufacturing regions - then you might have a point.Cut the whole thing out completely.
The only things the UAW forgot to do was to close the "Made in US from Japanese design/parts" loophole and repeal Taft-Hartley(unlikely under President PATCO(Reagan)). Deregulation, a simplified tax code and making people pay their own way are the only things that will make America able to compete with these leaner, cheaper countries. Tariffs would do the same thing, without lowering quality. Now if you want to remove Taft-Hartley and stop trying to kill quality goods, then we can talk. Until then, stop shoving I4 coffins and shoddy electronics into the US until people want them out of boredom.
Not to mention their presence being heavily south of the Mason-Dixon line, where they've used Taft-Hartley to ensure that it doesn't happen.
No doubt about it, they'll figure out how to trample upon the US once again.
Yes, but the equation behind it is a lot more complex.
Well, this gives yet another meaning to the phrase "Security Theater" given that all that investment on keeping APEC from the public being defeated by a few creative actors.
No surprise given they use one of the far right's own closed minds as a bully pulpit on Friday.
attack Kos. Fixed for you.
Other platforms are a bit less arbitrary on such stuff (IBM for example) and at least have their older non-x86 platforms well-covered(yes, they're killing everything short of POWER4 in AIX 6, but you can take the rest of the hardware with you). Even SGI hasn't fully killed off their long-dying MIPS machines (you might not be able to get them direct for any reasonable amount, but a good deal of them may even have a longer support lifespan than IBM).
There's something that Linux, and some of the BSD's have that Sun insists on not having - a wide range of hardware support. Sure, it's not going to run on the Sun3 easily, but non-Ultra sun4's that can take the load aren't beholden to bmc giving them the HCL blessing.
Given their haphazard application of their HCL (sun4m - need I say more) and the cutting out of perfectly usable sparcstations (no dtrace and crippled KCF is fine enough tyvm), it's left a sour bit in more than just a few.
You have to start training them to do goldfarming sometime.
Fixed that for you.