I would have to say Software engineers are often a systems administrator, but systems administrators are very seldom a Software Engineer. Sorry, writing a little script is considered programming, not Software Engineering. One you start pushing millions of lines of code, you will understand. Its all in the planning and design, hence the Engineering. -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Matthew S. Hallacy Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 8:40 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Re: [OT] Compensation.. salaries and Vacation. On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 04:14:40AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote: > > Software engineers are not systems administrators. It depends, a lot of system administration involves writing little scripts here and there for automation of tedius tasks, as well as writing front- ends for the sales/tech support/accounting droids. I think it goes hand-in-hand (although I don't think system admins would be writing anything to be used by anyone else but the company) > -- > Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> http://www.ringworld.org/ -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.371 / Virus Database: 206 - Release Date: 6/13/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.371 / Virus Database: 206 - Release Date: 6/13/2002