From: "Joe Barr" 


Perens on just about everything at:

http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0117.barr.html


Yes, George.  I'm talking about you.  ;)



LW: A Windows sysadmin friend said the study was totally bogus because it's
all about the skill of the sysadmin, not the product.

Perens: I think that is very interesting because obviously, when you go to
pay for this, the fact that the competence rests in the person rather than
the product is irrelevant to the money you are spending. The point here is
that in general, Windows sysadmins do not script as much as we do. It is
actually a product feature because we have made scripting incredibly easy;
there are a hundred different ways to do it, there are 20 different
languages. You'll notice that one of the Microsoft directions now is to
provide a top-quality scripting and command-line environment.

So they realize that "Yes, we actually do have them beat in
areas." What you're saying is that Linux sysadmins are in general more
competent, which brings up emotional issues. It may be that the competent
people simply do not choose to work on other platforms. I would not
criticize Chad's study on that basis.

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