nice Dan, thanks for the walk down memory lane, for reminding us that this
is temporary.
and now listmembers... (drumroll please) ... who is YOUR guess for the next
new kid on the block?
-e-
----- Original Message -----
From: "ccnawan"
To:
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 1:40 PM
Subject: OT:There is always a New Kid on the Block (CIsco) [7:2613]
> Hi all,
> A few days ago there was a thread about the value of cisco certs, and how
> they were a lot of people pursuing them now.
> My first recollection of IT, was when Big Blue was King, my oldest brother
> would bring some of the IBM computer punch cards home from his job. Nobody
> could touch IBM then. That was still true when I started out in IT in
1981.
> A couple years later the new kid on the block was Novell Netware, and
> everybody including me wanted to be a CNE. I pursued my Netware certs.
Then,
> we started hearing rumblings about Microsoft NT. You had to be a MCSE, if
> you did you could name your price, and that was true. As it was when
Netware
> 2.1 first came out nobody knew about NT, so I followed the new kid and got
a
> job in a NT shop. Well, now it is Cisco, no disrespect, I am a (Cisco
> reseller) and a few years as technology changes, it will be someone else
> maybe Juniper.
>
> After 20 years in IT nothing has changed, you must be prepared to learn
new
> technology, keep your ear to the ground for the new kid on the block, he
is
> coming soon, to a neighborhood near you.. I love computers.
>
> Dan Evensen CCNAWS CNS
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