[TriLUG] OT schools

[Chris Bullock]

I have to agree with Chris, can't speak for some of the central and 
western NC schools but I am currently enrolled in the masters program at 
ECU.  I have gone through the Cisco Networking Academy and IMHO "Network 
Administration" has very little to do with Microsoft.  Sure the theory 
of different OSs need to be there but TCP/IP is TCP/IP no matter what 
the OS is.  Most colleges and universities have "general" overview 
courses in both network and system administration that all computer 
affiliated majors students must take.  The student has a lot of time to 
make up his mind.  If he is going to a 4-year university he/she will not 
begin their concentration courses for about 3 semesters, so that gives 
them ample time to be sure that is what he/she wants to do.

IMHO, system admin is all the "servers" and the apps that they run.  But 
, all this depends on the shop that the person is in.  You have some 
shops that you have app admins, cisco admins, network admins, server 
admins, and on and on.  Basically the larger the shop the more granular 
your staff becomes, so small shops may be a few people who carry the 
title of sys and network admin, and into the largers shops where system 
admin only add novell users all day.

--chris

Stephen P. Schaefer wrote:
> In the Microsoft world (and it's a big world) "Network Administration" 
> has nothing to do with Cisco, but means you can get Microsoft's idea of 
> a server to provide Microsoft's idea of network services.  "System 
> Administration" is code for "Unix".  I don't advocate these usages, I've 
> just observed them.
> 
>     - Stephen
> 
> Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 01:50 PM, Merle Watts wrote:
>>
>>> I think he sent an application to charlotte yesterday.  He's lookin at
>>> network admin an he's interested in Linux.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yellow Flag Raised
>>
>> Not that "Network Administration" and "Linux" are mutually exclusive, 
>> but they are only slightly related.
>>
>> If he wants to be a Linux admin, I think you might mean "System 
>> Administration".  When you say "Network Administration", that more 
>> typically implies network infrastructure devices, which in most cases 
>> means "Cisco".
>>
>> Network Administrators and System Administrators work closely 
>> together, and in small shops may be the same person, but these are 
>> really two distinct disciplines.
>>
>> You may have already known this, and if so, I apologize.  But it was 
>> worth pointing out if you didn't already know this.
> 
> 
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