On May 24, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Blake Irvin wrote: > As a longtime Solaris user I don't have to be convinced that it's better in > many ways than Linux. But there is a reality that I've been forced to > embrace - developers don't care. > > I'm in the process right now of helping a large development team make the > transition to a Solaris hosting solution. I've spent hundreds of hours with > my operations team customizing our environments so that they 'look and feel' > like Ubuntu. > > Why? Because that's what the current crop of developers know, and it's too > expensive to train them otherwise.
Being both a programmer and a sysadmin, I wonder how good a developer is that needs to be trained to learn something new. There's got to be a "Solaris for Linux users" doc around somewhere. If someone can write code, they _should_ be able to read English, too. If they're too stumped to _use_ more than one environment, they're certainly not going to be the brightest about writing portable code. People who have trouble learning something new are just dead men walking. Flip the switch, enjoy the crackly sound, and get new ones. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
