<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Jeffrey Watts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffrey.w.watts@gmail.com">jeffrey.w.watts@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Jack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quiet_celt@yahoo.com" target="_blank">quiet_celt@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top"><br>I'm not being dramatic, merely stating the facts. Feel free to point out which of my statements is not factual, and correct me if you find an error in anything I said. Please be specific and quote verifiable sources for your proofs. </td>
</tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><div><br><br>My "source" for this opinion is my experience in working with Linux for sixteen years~<br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>My source for Sun's opinion is the Tier 3 storage support engineer I was on the phone with trying to recover a failed Veritas volume on a Sun V880 a couple of years ago.<div>
<br></div><div>My source for HP's opinion are the other admins in the office who have been administering HP-UX systems in production (anything from old workstations to Superdomes, to Integrity RX8640s, 2000+ servers) for a reasonable length of time[1].</div>
<div><br></div><div>My source for IBM's opinion is a guy I used to work with who is sort of the lead architect of the company's AIX deployment (1000+ servers) and has been working with AIX for a reasonable length of time[1].</div>
<div><br></div><div>My source for Linux information is my own 16 years of experience (since October of 1994) in using and administering Linux systems, both personally and professionally, and having to perform filesystem recovery from time to time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Obviously none of my sources are verifiable as I'm not about to give out company phone numbers on this mailing list (nor would my coworkers appreciate the call) and while I can't remember the name of the Sun storage engineer, even if I did, you'd not be able to speak with him without a valid Sun support contract (and I'm sure he'd not appreciate the call, either).</div>
<div><br></div><div>[1] "a reasonable length of time" is defined here as "employed professionally in this role for a period of time in excess of 10 years."</div><div><br>-- <br>Chris<br><br><br><br>
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