So a user post in another comment got me to thinking. This user stated that the networking industry (really network vendors) were making a lot of progress, because they were finally running on *NIX OS'es.
It made me think. We're moving "forward" by going to *NIX OS'es which are all quite old and literally from the very earliest stages of computing. Now granted, I know that Linux is still heavily used because it's just better than Windows at certain things... but one has to think: if everything is going to Linux Shells and the like, and there's this push to stop managing our devices through individual CLI prompts... aren't we just gonna turn into Systems Admins?
To me a job posting that says "must be able to administrate a linux system, must be able to write python and bash scripts, must know tcp/ip and associate protocols" that sounds like a Systems Administrator job, not a Network Admin/Network Engineer.
Also with Dell and other vendors coming out with new blades where it's a high powered Data Center Switch + Server in one, at what point are we all just systems guys?
To me this isn't really an evolution but more of a compression.. a collapsing of different roles. It's the industry carving down their IT department... it's one of the oldest methods of down sizing: combine multiple offices together to perform one function, and then cut the numbers down after integration.
[Shower] thoughts?
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