On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:37:48PM -0500, Ryan Malayter wrote:
[guy]
Most sysadmins are not in the art!
The art is made up of developers. The developers come up
with the standards
and implement them. Sysadmins deploy them. IMHO.
And many developers I know can't admin or secure a box to save their
life, nor keep it running for very long.
Deployment and management is *definitely* part of the "art", insofar as
sysadmins define the requirements that drive development. IMHO.
...and many sysadmins program. Some out of necessity, some out of a
love for the art. I don't think the same can be said for programmers,
except perhaps the "out of necessity" bit. But I'd imagine the number
of sysadmins who program far outweighs the number of programmers who
sysadmin.
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