Comments on: Nearly 40,000 Professionals Certified on Red Hat Linux

By: Robert Pogson

Robert Pogson — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:07:11 +0000

I think that mass-producing virtual desktops is the way we should change the world. I did it on a small scale once. I had built a system on-time (almost) and under budget, but through a series of unavoidable delays, it was the night before production and I had no user accounts. In 20 minutes I had a script working and in 5 minutes of running it I had 700 user accounts. I printed username/password pairs on tear-off tickets and distributed them to managers the next day. It felt good.

First person works.

One of my ideas for retirement is to become a VAR. I could be too busy to blog.

I had a great day today. Word came down from high places that the 25 year old building in which I work and in which layers of ad-hoc cabling had been done will be done over properly in CAT-6 with VOIP stuff and lots of drops. The possibilities for virtual desktops just increased! There will be at least a few days of downtime for the whole system and plenty of time to install a 64bit OS on the servers. We will do our part to boost the GDP of the IT world.

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:38:08 +0000

Robert: You’re starting to write and think like The VAR Guy. You should blog — though not in the third person.

By: Robert Pogson

Robert Pogson — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:34:38 +0000

40000 is a lot…

If each one babysits 100 servers that’s 4 million servers.

If each one installs a server 200 days a year that’s 8 million servers.

If each one clones 20 servers a day for 200 days that’s 160 million servers.

Next we will have them mass-producing virtual desktops.

Those guys/gals could change the world. Good for RedHat and FLOSS.