<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">A lot of folks have seen the writing on the wall up at LOPSA. We had some hallway meetings trying to figure out what the next trajectory should be for “big machine” needs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A lot of talk around HPC and a lot of talk around SSI Linux-based clusters and a BOATLOAD of testing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’re at an inflection point, folks. Curious to see what’s next. I’ll just keep using Linux. :D</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—j</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 6, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Chuck Payne <<a href="mailto:terrorpup@gmail.com" class="">terrorpup@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I was surprised, in my job hunt, over the last month I have five jobs, in the Atlanta area looking for a Solaris Admin.<br class=""><br class="">I guess Solaris is used by a lot of banking, like AS/400 machines ( sorry I know that the same OS to Hardware ). </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:53 AM, leam hall <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Given the Linux adoption of systemd the only options seem to be "Winderz with a GUI", "Winderz with a command line", "Expensive Fruit", or some flavor of BSD.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="h5">On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="">What's left besides AIX? Carly pulled the plug on HPUX a long time back. IRIX (zombie)?<br class="">
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Oh. That never gonna amount to much more than an experiment little upstart called Linux.<br class="">
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I won't miss slowos but I feel for the newly unemployed.<br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On September 6, 2017 2:02:20 AM EDT, Chuck Payne <<a href="mailto:terrorpup@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">terrorpup@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto" class="">Not sure if anyone saw the post, but Oracle laidoff all the Solaris people, a lot of the articles are calling it the final nail in Sun's coffin.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">As a Solaris admin, I am a bit sad, I remember when the user group went away after the sale of Sun to Oracle. I also remember the end of openSolaris (please note there were three distro of openSolaris at the time of it''s end).</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">You know more to me Oracle is a technology killer than technology innovator it's really sad I'm going to miss Solaris. Plus, Sparc computers. I used Ultra25 for three yeara, great machine.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">SunOS is dead, long live SunOS (Solaris).</div></div><span class="m_-395388805612082447HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class="">
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