On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:05:24AM +0530, Mridul Dutta wrote: > I have done RHCE 3.0 . I have work experience abt 1 year in > different flavoure of linux like Redhat, Suse , Debian . Now recently i got > a good chance to work with HP-UX . > > So can any body tell what is future prospective of HP-UX regarding my > Career. You won't get an unbiased opinion here. My biased opinion - and I work in an enterprise with Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX as well as OpenVMS and Windows - is that HP-UX will not survive long-term. Neither will Solaris. That said, that doesn't mean that knowing HP-UX will be bad for your career. People predicted the death of OpenVMS many years ago and there are still good-paying satisfying jobs out there. What's important is not just the OS but the attitude. You either really understand enterprise requirements or you don't - I haven't seen much in between. You can learn a lot from working in environment with larger systems (which HP-UX systems usually are). You're learn about planning, change control, patch management, etc. This will all help even if you end up abandoning HP-UX in favor of Linux 5, 10, or 20 years down the road. I knew no Linux when I took my current job 8 years ago - I was mostly a VMS guy. Now I'm the local Linux expert (with RHCE certification) and the most senior person responsible for our SAN with about 150TB sitting on the floor. I still do some VMS although it's a small part of my job now. If you want to build into a solid career, go to a job where you're learn from people good at what they do and have the ability to teach you - not classroom-training but solid on-the-job training. It doesn't matter what the OS is. Knowing how stuff works and what processes you need to do are more important than the syntax. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
