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[Ed Wilts]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:05:24AM +0530, Mridul Dutta wrote:
>              I have done RHCE 3.0 . I have work experience abt 1 year in
> different flavoure of linux like Redhat, Suse , Debian . Now recently i got
> a good chance to work with HP-UX .
> 
>  So can any body tell what is future prospective of HP-UX regarding my
> Career.

You won't get an unbiased opinion here.  My biased opinion - and I work
in an enterprise with Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX as well as OpenVMS and
Windows - is that HP-UX will not survive long-term.  Neither will
Solaris.  That said, that doesn't mean that knowing HP-UX will be bad
for your career. People predicted the death of OpenVMS many years ago
and there are still good-paying satisfying jobs out there.

What's important is not just the OS but the attitude.  You either really
understand enterprise requirements or you don't - I haven't seen much in
between.  You can learn a lot from working in environment with larger
systems (which HP-UX systems usually are).  You're learn about planning,
change control, patch management, etc.  This will all help even if you
end up abandoning HP-UX in favor of Linux 5, 10, or 20 years down the
road.  I knew no Linux when I took my current job 8 years ago - I was
mostly a VMS guy.  Now I'm the local Linux expert (with RHCE
certification) and the most senior person responsible for our SAN with
about 150TB sitting on the floor.  I still do some VMS although it's a
small part of my job now.

If you want to build into a solid career, go to a job where you're learn
from people good at what they do and have the ability to teach you - not
classroom-training but solid on-the-job training.  It doesn't matter
what the OS is.  Knowing how stuff works and what processes you need to
do are more important than the syntax.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program