The swinging axe

[Coronita]

FLU, thanks for the write up. It seems like SD have a pretty good selection. Unfortunately, most of those are satellite offices, so they'll be the first to get shut down if the company goes through a rough patch. It's definitely not all doom and gloom though. But I guess to some on here, these jobs doesn't exist and so, there's no ways there's enough people who can save any money for a down payment.

 

At this very moment in times, does appear slightly gloomy. In the short term, I've been hearing a lot of about companies doing hiring freezes. It seems like some companies are in the wait-and-see economy mentality. There's no doubt there's a lot of companies out here. The question is, how many of them still have open reqs. I hope it turns around soon.

 

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—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[kewp]

WebSense isn’t a pure security player. They do a lot of content filtering apps and mal-ware detection. But like I said, it seems like stuff like this is getting commoditized pretty fast. People seem to expect this stuff should all be free and cheap, just like PC’s. They’re well off their all time highs too.

I built a malware filtering proxy using open source products and commodity hardware. It’s meets our needs better than most of the commercial stuff out there.

However, my gig is one of the few where we can get away with using Linux and other open-source products. Lots of folks will only purchase commercial software.

[kewp]

WebSense isn’t a pure security player. They do a lot of content filtering apps and mal-ware detection. But like I said, it seems like stuff like this is getting commoditized pretty fast. People seem to expect this stuff should all be free and cheap, just like PC’s. They’re well off their all time highs too.

I built a malware filtering proxy using open source products and commodity hardware. It’s meets our needs better than most of the commercial stuff out there.

However, my gig is one of the few where we can get away with using Linux and other open-source products. Lots of folks will only purchase commercial software.

[kewp]

WebSense isn’t a pure security player. They do a lot of content filtering apps and mal-ware detection. But like I said, it seems like stuff like this is getting commoditized pretty fast. People seem to expect this stuff should all be free and cheap, just like PC’s. They’re well off their all time highs too.

I built a malware filtering proxy using open source products and commodity hardware. It’s meets our needs better than most of the commercial stuff out there.

However, my gig is one of the few where we can get away with using Linux and other open-source products. Lots of folks will only purchase commercial software.

[kewp]

WebSense isn’t a pure security player. They do a lot of content filtering apps and mal-ware detection. But like I said, it seems like stuff like this is getting commoditized pretty fast. People seem to expect this stuff should all be free and cheap, just like PC’s. They’re well off their all time highs too.

I built a malware filtering proxy using open source products and commodity hardware. It’s meets our needs better than most of the commercial stuff out there.

However, my gig is one of the few where we can get away with using Linux and other open-source products. Lots of folks will only purchase commercial software.

[kewp]

WebSense isn’t a pure security player. They do a lot of content filtering apps and mal-ware detection. But like I said, it seems like stuff like this is getting commoditized pretty fast. People seem to expect this stuff should all be free and cheap, just like PC’s. They’re well off their all time highs too.

I built a malware filtering proxy using open source products and commodity hardware. It’s meets our needs better than most of the commercial stuff out there.

However, my gig is one of the few where we can get away with using Linux and other open-source products. Lots of folks will only purchase commercial software.

[CardiffBaseball]

Flu pretty good list, and something to keep in mind if there are RIFs where I work.

[CardiffBaseball]

Flu pretty good list, and something to keep in mind if there are RIFs where I work.

[CardiffBaseball]

Flu pretty good list, and something to keep in mind if there are RIFs where I work.

[CardiffBaseball]

Flu pretty good list, and something to keep in mind if there are RIFs where I work.

[CardiffBaseball]

Flu pretty good list, and something to keep in mind if there are RIFs where I work.

[lonestar2000]

That said, I can tell you what i think is the latest buzzwords in the IT space these days. “Service Oriented Architecture”, “Cloud computing”, “grid computing”. Fancy terms for having a pool of computing/storage resources that you can reuse. In other words, buy your IBM stock now. It’s only a matter of time before mainframe makes a comeback.

I completely agree, nothing does back-end storage, processing, and delivery better than a mainframe. You can put whatever you want on your front-end servers that format and spew out web documents in XHTML/XML to your clients, but the real back-end storage and processing that will be necessary to support 100Mbps on-demant IPTV/streaming media to homes and mobile devices (100Mbps on Cellular networks has already been demonstrated) is going to be run on big iron. No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.

I am a network tech today but I do have mainframe operations experience, and it is all coming full circle. I can’t wait to get back to running mainframes again!

[lonestar2000]

That said, I can tell you what i think is the latest buzzwords in the IT space these days. “Service Oriented Architecture”, “Cloud computing”, “grid computing”. Fancy terms for having a pool of computing/storage resources that you can reuse. In other words, buy your IBM stock now. It’s only a matter of time before mainframe makes a comeback.

I completely agree, nothing does back-end storage, processing, and delivery better than a mainframe. You can put whatever you want on your front-end servers that format and spew out web documents in XHTML/XML to your clients, but the real back-end storage and processing that will be necessary to support 100Mbps on-demant IPTV/streaming media to homes and mobile devices (100Mbps on Cellular networks has already been demonstrated) is going to be run on big iron. No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.

I am a network tech today but I do have mainframe operations experience, and it is all coming full circle. I can’t wait to get back to running mainframes again!

[lonestar2000]

That said, I can tell you what i think is the latest buzzwords in the IT space these days. “Service Oriented Architecture”, “Cloud computing”, “grid computing”. Fancy terms for having a pool of computing/storage resources that you can reuse. In other words, buy your IBM stock now. It’s only a matter of time before mainframe makes a comeback.

I completely agree, nothing does back-end storage, processing, and delivery better than a mainframe. You can put whatever you want on your front-end servers that format and spew out web documents in XHTML/XML to your clients, but the real back-end storage and processing that will be necessary to support 100Mbps on-demant IPTV/streaming media to homes and mobile devices (100Mbps on Cellular networks has already been demonstrated) is going to be run on big iron. No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.

I am a network tech today but I do have mainframe operations experience, and it is all coming full circle. I can’t wait to get back to running mainframes again!

[lonestar2000]

That said, I can tell you what i think is the latest buzzwords in the IT space these days. “Service Oriented Architecture”, “Cloud computing”, “grid computing”. Fancy terms for having a pool of computing/storage resources that you can reuse. In other words, buy your IBM stock now. It’s only a matter of time before mainframe makes a comeback.

I completely agree, nothing does back-end storage, processing, and delivery better than a mainframe. You can put whatever you want on your front-end servers that format and spew out web documents in XHTML/XML to your clients, but the real back-end storage and processing that will be necessary to support 100Mbps on-demant IPTV/streaming media to homes and mobile devices (100Mbps on Cellular networks has already been demonstrated) is going to be run on big iron. No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.

I am a network tech today but I do have mainframe operations experience, and it is all coming full circle. I can’t wait to get back to running mainframes again!

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